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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by k1m » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

xiaomai wrote: post #14

I still use rss too (switched to using a self-hosted tt-rss after trying out a ton of Google Reader alternatives). I love RSS and mourn the fact that it's not more popular. The main problem with RSS becoming so niche is that lots of blogs/etc. no longer support RSS (I guess I need to look into one of those mailing list -> RSS things).

If the website is still accessible, it's possible to generate an RSS feed using the main page URL. I work on a project called Feed Creator that does this. You give it the page URL and the item selectors: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by jlelse » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

Same. And there are still a lot of people blogging as well: https://jlelse.blog/blogroll

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by _y5hn » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

QuiteRSS works well. It's for both Windows and Linux.

https://quiterss.org/

No affiliation, just a satisfied user.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by akmarinov » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

I found this post via RSS!

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by kgwxd » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

MereInterest wrote: post #20

blakesterz wrote: post #15

This quote is exactly right: "Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it with the freedom to jump between readers as I please, all with no ads? For me, no other service comes close to the flexibility, robustness, and overall ease-of-use that RSS offers." I always wonder why they aren't as popular now. It takes more work to add site to a reader, and more effort to even use one I suppose.…

As far as I can tell, because RSS requires the cooperation of actors who have no incentive to cooperate. If I use an RSS reader to support content, then it is under my control when I read it, if I read it, and what format to read it under. I can view the content however I'd like, and no tracking is there. All of these are unambiguously good things for me, and are anathema for the advertising industry. I cannot use RS…

I'm perfectly happy just getting headlines with links, which seems most common these days, at least for what I subscribe to. It requires I go to their site to get the content where they can (try to) shove anything they want in my face and run whatever trackers they normally do.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by 0066cc » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

_y5hn wrote: post #23

QuiteRSS works well. It's for both Windows and Linux. https://quiterss.org/ No affiliation, just a satisfied user.

Original author here, QuiteRSS is also an excellent choice I should have mentioned!

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by superkuh » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

_y5hn wrote: post #23

QuiteRSS works well. It's for both Windows and Linux. https://quiterss.org/ No affiliation, just a satisfied user.

I second that. If you have a lot of feeds, thousands, then QuiteRSS is one of the readers that will work reliably. It can be ram heavy with 1k+ feeds but it does the job.

In the article the author mentions one way to get RSS feeds from a youtube channel. This is how to get it from a youtube username,

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USER_ID

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by type0 » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

NewsFlash is a good reader on Linux - https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk or NewsBoat if you prefer the cli interface https://newsboat.org/

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by sgtfrankieboy » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #17

blakesterz wrote: post #15

This quote is exactly right: "Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it with the freedom to jump between readers as I please, all with no ads? For me, no other service comes close to the flexibility, robustness, and overall ease-of-use that RSS offers." I always wonder why they aren't as popular now. It takes more work to add site to a reader, and more effort to even use one I suppose.…

> I always wonder why they aren't as popular now. 1) Google makes really quite good RSS reader (Google Reader) 2) Everybody switches to it, competition atrophies 3) Google shuts it down

Google shutting down their RSS reader didn't really have an impact.

They shut it down back in March of 2013. If you look at the trends graph[1] for RSS it was dying out for years.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by 13415 » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

I personally find these articles amusing because I'm still wondering whether I should start using RSS. I've always kept in the back of my mind over the years that I really should check out which RSS reader is the best so I have it ready when I need one.