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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 quickcheck »

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…

If you go the self-hosted route you can also put RSS-Bridge on the same host to locally generate RSS feeds for a lot of sources that don't have RSS like Twitter https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by ilyt »

account-5 wrote: post #60

I love RSS/atom feeds. One thing I'm wondering though, RSS is is XML based. Most things are/have moved to JSON (RPC really more than REST). My question is why is XML still good for this use case? Genuinely interested.

It's not better or worse, it was just first. I guess having schemas in standard rather than some kind of addon like for JSON is a benefit but not really that relevant, schema doesn't help all that much if you make bad RSS stream anyway.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by ilyt »

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…

> 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

Filter them. For example I have Tested youtube channel on feed but put a filter on titles that gets most of the content Adam Savage makes (as I kinda don't care about anything else they do).

Also, splitting into groups helps a lot, just putting "low volume but I want to see everything" stuff away from "just basically a news feed of on average mildly interesting stuff" hels

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

david2ndaccount wrote: post #20
jesuslop wrote: post #5

Nice to know that YouTube does RSS.

It’s one of those features that feels like someone forgot they support it and I fear the day when they remove it.

Indeed; it doesn't feel as though it be in the interest of the website which is why support is dropping.

Youtube wants people to subscribe, which I don't do, I simply add the RSS feed of channels I want to be updated about which is probably not what either Youtube or those channels want given how much they are begging me to subscribe all the time.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by emsign »

jesuslop wrote: post #5

Nice to know that YouTube does RSS.

Yeah, I've cancelled all my subscriptions on YouTube and use a browser extension that hides recommendations and ads. I follow a lot of channels and there comes a point where I had to do something since I was missing videos constantly. When I want to watch YouTube I don't go to Youtube.com but open my RSS reader that links me directly to the videos.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by vanilla_nut »

mawise wrote: post #7

+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

Brilliant! If you ever need help with this, I would love to pitch in. It reminds me of the olden days of social media.

For users who don't know how to self host, and can't stomach the (very reasonable for ad-free social media) $5/mo... have you considered a cloud-hosted option with a sidebar of KTLO ads? Or maybe a "family plan" cloud instance where multiple friends could share a single cloud instance (sharded per person) to save money on the hosted option?

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by ascagnel_ »

dont__panic wrote: post #44
nazgulsenpai wrote: post #9

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.

And if you're looking to move off of the Twitter app, NNW has a built-in tool to ingest Twitter timelines and searches (you still need to sign in to use Twitter's API).

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by charlieegan3 »

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.

You might be able to get what you need with IFTTT or Zapier. They have email digests and support RSS triggers.
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