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Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by jakewalker »

paulgb wrote: post #2

The current situation at Twitter has made me want to go back to the good-old-days of RSS, I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I'm rusty, though. What's the best Mac desktop RSS client these days?

Strongly prefer NetNewsWire, which is free and open source. www.netnewswire.com. Available on Mac and iOS.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by addajones »

jakewalker wrote: post #4
paulgb wrote: post #2

The current situation at Twitter has made me want to go back to the good-old-days of RSS, I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I'm rusty, though. What's the best Mac desktop RSS client these days?

Strongly prefer NetNewsWire, which is free and open source. www.netnewswire.com. Available on Mac and iOS.

Also a great choice and has been around for a while!

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by mawise »

+1 for RSS, I leaned on RSS as my protocol-of-choice for Haven[1], and even added a built-in RSS feed-reader. It provides a single chronologically-ordered stream of content from all your feeds which I've found makes it much more pleasant to read through.

[1]: https://havenweb.org

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by mYTtapS0 »

I recently started using RSS again (self-hosted with miniflux). One difficulty I have is that these kinds of RSS feeds in OP are way too high-volume for me. But it can be hard to find good blogs or RSS feeds without relying on Twitter to find them.

Back in the day, more people used to include a list of blogs they follow on their own blogs, I thought this was a great practice. A few still do, like this very interesting blog on statistics: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/blogs-i-read/

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