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I make heavy use of https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds -- IMO the RSS reader context is way better than an email inbox for consuming newslettery content.
I find it hilarious that a bit lower down, someone is discussing https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email to do the opposite of this.
PSA: enable CORS[1] so people can make cross-origin requests without having to run a proxy. PSA #2: set things up so the author field of your feed includes your email address (e.g. "Alice ") and not just your bare name, so people can more easily get in touch with you without having to click through to the original post and then hunt around for your contact page; otherwise, you might never find out it's broken[2]. 1.…
I make heavy use of https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds -- IMO the RSS reader context is way better than an email inbox for consuming newslettery content.
that's amazing! Subscribing now. I'd love to find a "web2rss" for laggards that don't provide their own feeds :)
- Being able to dismiss articles where the headline is the story is really valuable. For example, I just dismissed "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun (techcrunch.com)"- it's not worth my attention.
- It's possible to accrue a large backlog of unread "semi-interesting" items that may or may not be valuable. In this sense, there's still a FOMO aspect to RSS, and you have to be aggressive in dismissing articles. For exmaple, a few 2-week-old backlog titles in my feed include "SHA-3 Buffer Overflow", "Show HN: Restfox - Open source lightweight alternative to Postman", and "Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain". These are semi-interesting, but really I should just dismiss them.
I've used RSS to follow all media for the past 2 years (FreshRSS+FeedMe, I have a guide here https://soapstone.mradford.com/hn-rss-guide/ ). It's been the single best thing I've done to reclaim my attention. Here's a couple of other random thoughts: - Being able to dismiss articles where the headline is the story is really valuable. For example, I just dismissed "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun (techcrunch.com)"- i…
So from a Kantian ethical point of view, it doesn't really work. There ought to be a better solution. But on a personal level, I wholeheartedly agree
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…
Flym for Android.
Agree, RSS is great tool for decentralization. However, I cannot find proper open-source RSS reader for Windows that fits in 2022. Any recommendations? I especially need customization for appearance of text/feed. Feeder for Android is great.
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…
Drew wrote the OG version: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring
I also made a little rust version here: https://github.com/lukehsiao/openring-rs
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.