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Feeder is a great GPL RSS reader for Android. Save you some time fumbling through the Google Play cess pool. Not affiliated just a happy user. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...
If you're inclined to self-host (or can just run a Docker-compose anywhere on your network), MiniFlux is amazing.
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 interestin…
HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN front page a day or so before they hit HN. But HN isn't the only place I practice this. Back in the 2010s it was obvious reddit was going under so I did the same there till 2015. I have 1000+ RSS feeds now and very little need for news aggregators on the day to…
I do this too, but only started a few days ago. That's a lot of feeds you've collected, would you be open to sharing a list of them?
If you like bicycles and simple tech stuff, you might enjoy.
Feeder is a great GPL RSS reader for Android. Save you some time fumbling through the Google Play cess pool. Not affiliated just a happy user. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...
For iOS folks, I can't recommend NetNewsWire more. I pair NNW on my phone and laptop with Fresh.RSS running on my raspberry pi for most of my news and blog feeds these days. HN nerds might remember that NNW is very fast, even by native macOS standards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23286362 If you're feeling fatigued by algorithmic nonsense these days, you should seriously give RSS a try.
Let's not participate in the corruption of the word "algorithm" here on HN, too. We wouldn't tolerate people saying "integral" when they mean "derivative", so we shouldn't tolerate this, either. We can afford to abstain from this sort of quick-and-easy but sloppy use of language as a shorthand for generic memetic outrage.
Feeder is a great GPL RSS reader for Android. Save you some time fumbling through the Google Play cess pool. Not affiliated just a happy user. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...
I've mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I like the uniformity and simplicity of RSS, its vibe of good old times and the ability to avoid ad-driven ranking algorithms. On the other hand, many media/content sources offer legitimately sophisticated recommendation systems that are more effective than having dozens of unranked high-frequency inputs a day in your RSS inbox. For sources with more curated and low-fr…
I just don’t understand the obsession with privacy at all cost. What has anyone actually had happen to them as a result of their Reddit or YouTube browsing history? This just seems like reverse voyeurism, and while that’s fine, it’s odd to assume anyone else shares that fetish with you.
I wish more feeds had this kind of focus- sharing the meat of something in the item body rather than a bland summary or a plain click through to an article.
The feed item should give me a reason to go through to the article/link/comment, not just be a spammy list of things that might be interesting but probably won't be (but I won't know until I click through and find out for myself).
If we have a RSS revival, please be Atom 1.0 :) !
What are the differences between RSS and Atom? Most of my experience with RSS is just for podcasts.
RSS is a bunch of different "standards" and good practices, its way more difficult to parse and play with.
They both have the same goal, but one is just cleaner and stricter :)
HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN front page a day or so before they hit HN. But HN isn't the only place I practice this. Back in the 2010s it was obvious reddit was going under so I did the same there till 2015. I have 1000+ RSS feeds now and very little need for news aggregators on the day to…
Good grief I struggle to keep up with eight feeds in my RSS reader!