Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021) • Hacker News Board

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by 5bolts » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

bgro wrote: post #128

Can anybody recommend a RSS program that works on Windows that isn't terrible? Or that literally does the minimum requirement of works? I don't know what happened, but when I tried to find something earlier this year, it looked like there was nothing that was a simple RSS without extra bloat that wasn't abandonware and that actually literally worked. Every time I ask this, 90% of the answers just say use X Android ap…

haven't used a dedicated installed program in ages - as i browse on different machines at different times of day... Newsblur ticked a ton of boxes for me, moved from inoreader.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by zacharytalis » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 8:56 PM UTC

NoboruWataya wrote: post #52

Does anyone use (or know of) software that follows RSS feeds and sends you a single daily/weekly/whatever digest with links to all new posts? TinyTinyRSS has this functionality which I am currently using but it's not very pretty or configurable - I'm wondering if there is anything else that I could look into.

I'm also working on a tool to do this: https://github.com/ZacharyTalis/rss-digest-flask/

Though I'm running into a stubborn issue where FreshRSS doesn't parse the date correctly... so your mileage may vary.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by remram » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #12

I've been self hosting TT-RSS since Newsblut raised prices some years ago (which was what I switched to when Google Reader closed). My list simply grew over time. Whenever I see an interesting article (doesn't matter where, here, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook) I check if the others are interesting, and if so, I subscribe. Almost everything worth reading has a feed.

Switched from TT-RSS to FreshRSS recently, mostly because I don't want to hack on PHP code. It's a good alternative, also light weight.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by kornhole » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:07 PM UTC

andrewshadura wrote: post #110

This mentions Bibliogram, but in fact it's been discontinued since Instagram has been actively breaking it for quite some time. Another app, Barinsta, died after its author was served a C&D letter.

I have been using RSS-Bridge to generate those feeds, but today it looks like Mark changed the API again. Hopefully next update will fix that. I wish I could get my family and friends to start posting on the Pixelfed instance I setup for them to avoid this cat and mouse game with Meta. ;/

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by frumiousirc » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:09 PM UTC

A useful reminder is to configure your RSS reader to poll at a reasonable frequency. I know of at least one popular blog that blocks RSS polls from liferea due to a too-fast default.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by Semaphor » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

remram wrote: post #133

Semaphor wrote: post #12

I've been self hosting TT-RSS since Newsblut raised prices some years ago (which was what I switched to when Google Reader closed). My list simply grew over time. Whenever I see an interesting article (doesn't matter where, here, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook) I check if the others are interesting, and if so, I subscribe. Almost everything worth reading has a feed.

Switched from TT-RSS to FreshRSS recently, mostly because I don't want to hack on PHP code. It's a good alternative, also light weight.

I tried it and some things didn't work, can't remember what was my issue, though.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by kornhole » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

jesuslop wrote: post #5

Nice to know that YouTube does RSS.

You can also use https://api.invidious.io/ to get the feeds. I keep the Youtube feed since I just share button to Newpipe. From Newpipe I can send to Kodi for the big screen experience.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by themadturk » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

jollyllama wrote: post #14

mYTtapS0 wrote: post #8

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…

You can follow twitter feeds in RSS via Nitter instances. Just place /rss after a profile URL.

Feedbin lets you read Twitter as RSS feeds as well. US$5 a month, but well worth it to me.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by themadturk » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:19 PM UTC

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.

Yes, NetNewsWire is great. It works well as a client for Feedbin, too.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by aliceryhl » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 9:25 PM UTC

NoboruWataya wrote: post #52

Does anyone use (or know of) software that follows RSS feeds and sends you a single daily/weekly/whatever digest with links to all new posts? TinyTinyRSS has this functionality which I am currently using but it's not very pretty or configurable - I'm wondering if there is anything else that I could look into.

I wrote my own program that submits new RSS entries to my todoist account once each night.