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I have been using Feedly which is pretty much dead due to the reddit situation. Are there other similar tools that's Lemmy friendly?
Can somebody explain RSS Feeds to me like I was 5? Yes I know I am late to the party as I saw somebody say they have used them for 20+ years. Thank you!
I'm making use of a self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this purpose actually. While I wouldn't necessarily recommend it just for the purposes of RSS, it's a nice addition to the platform for someone who happens to be running an instance for other reasons already. Most of the web-based RSS reader solutions I've come across relied on advertising or other premium membership models to support the service, so an alternative would have to be pretty damn compelling for me to transition away from Nextcloud and start subjecting myself to ads again.
Does anyone have any tips on setting up RSS for twitter so it shows more content than what is just on the first page through the https://nitter.net/{{ twitter_account }}/rss method?
I've been using fritter but there's no longer a way to combine feeds from all accounts at once. And when it comes to setting up a regular RSS I run into the feed quantity limitation for each account.
FreshRSS is cools. The way mamma used to make.
And self-hostable which is why I switched to it. I also highly recommend netnewswire if you're in the apple ecosystem.
If you haven't already joined there are selfhosted communities on the Fediverse.
After Google killed reader I used Newsblur for a while but didn't really feel like it was worth the price of admission. So I rolled up a FreshRSS server myself. I really like it. I use the FeedMe app on Android.
I use RSS every day- it's my primary source of news- but there are many sites I'd follow, but they don't they have a feed. My reader, Inoeader, claims to have a workaround for it, but only on their paid version, which is stupid expensive.
I selfhost freshrss and it's amazing. If the reddit privacy frontends go down due to the api changes, I'll lose those feeds but I already replaced them with lemmy feeds anyways :)
After the closing of Google Reader and years of searching I settled a few years ago with Inoreader. I fully recommend it. They offer subscription discounts throughout the year where you can save ~40% of the cost.
Their webpage app is really good and the Android app is also extremely good and usable.
A great feature that I make use of is their option to create feeds from sites that don't offer RSS. Also I have connected Youtube so I have a feed with an update in my subscriptions
Completely recommended.
I switched to feedbro, because the feeds started to fill with anxiety driven news. So i needed something with good filtering.
It's a browser plugin. Very modifiable, looks fine and behaves well. All that it misses is a way to sync. Has manual backups for feeds and filter-rules.
Tip. It can handle youtube channels and twitter users feeds.
I've been using RSSHub and Miniflux for a while now, self-hosted. It's mainly how I read news.
It seems I've been missing out and I have a few more services to stand up over the weekend and try out. It's been refreshing this week avoiding reddit.
Feeder is a great Android app. It even fetches the full content from Paywalled sites
I been using the feeder app and its really good to get tech news , just add the RSS links and you have news that choose to read and not recommended bullshit.
I self host a tiny tiny rss instance, and while I'm not a huge fan of the developer and his behavior, I like the web app in combination with the android app. It's been working great for me for years.
If only youtube sill offered a RSS feed from all my subscriptions. It's so annoying that I can't figure out how to get it.
It's in there if you inspect the source of the page.
Alternatively, feedly is able to detect and parse it, you only have to provide it the URL to the channel.
If you then don't want to use feedly, you can export your subscriptions as a opml file, and import them in another reader.
A bit of a convoluted solution, if you don't want to inspect the source.
I use Miniflux and I've actually had luck just putting the channel url like youtube[.]com/channel/CHANNEL_NAME_HERE and the rss feed populates from there!
I wrote a quick bash script to one-click the rss feeds out the page source. I'm surprised most rss readers don't do that automatically, it's not an involved algorithm to pick that out.
After using RSS feeds for a while on my phone, I switched to using them exclusively on my laptop. Having them on something not as easy to whip out as my phone makes me less inclined to compulsively check them.
ya but I dont want active control. I want passive control. I'm lazy. :(
I've been using the nextcloud RSS reader for a while now. Not the most feature rich, but it does the job for me.
Yeah, and this also applies to the fediverse as I've recently realized. X instance on a whim de-federating with W, Y and Z is just as bad. It just makes it a PITA to be a user. Plus one would think NSFW on an open platform would be better adopted but everyone avoids it like the plague. Only lemmynsfw is out there, and blocked from many places.
I'm setting up RSS to pull all the content I want from any place.
I've been using NewsBlur (and syncing with Reeder on mobile) ever since Google killed their RSS service. It supports parsing some non-RSS sites and services, as well.