Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge

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Post by bluprince13 » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 4:30 AM UTC

Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
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Post by rcarmo » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 7:54 AM UTC

I read almost everything (news, blogs, even HN) via a combination of Feedly, a custom Node-RED scraper that turns some sites into proper RSS (and translates things like Swedish into English) and Reeder. It’s still the best way to quickly sift through news every morning.

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Post by amriksohata » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 8:04 AM UTC

Feedly is fantastic for rss

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Post by bluprince13 » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 8:12 AM UTC

amriksohata wrote: post #3

Feedly is fantastic for rss

Yeah, it was b/w Feedly and Inoreader for me. Went for Inoreader kinda randomly. Because I only use it as a backend, it doesn't seem like I need too many features.

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Post by PaulKeeble » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

I self host FreshRSS. The grand majority of sites support RSS as well so it works for most things although you may have to apply some filters to content depending on the sites and what the feeds contain. It is a quicker way to get new articles lists from the places you care about to give you a custom feed of the sort of "news" you care about.

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Post by bilal4hmed » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:27 PM UTC

Been using and paying for newsblur for some years now. Absolutely love it

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Post by mukundesh » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader

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Post by raspyberr » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:39 PM UTC

mukundesh wrote: post #7

For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader

But RSS is everywhere. I use it for so many blogs and sites, as do many others. And for sites that don't have RSS there are services to turn them into RSS feeds. You can turn newsletters into RSS feeds. You can have RSS in your email client. RSS is thriving.

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Post by senectus1 » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:51 PM UTC

mukundesh wrote: post #7

For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader

hell no, RSS just shifted sideways to a feedly interface. still going strong though.

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Post by stevekemp » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

I wrote yet another "rss to email" tools, which is what I use for consuming feeds:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

Getting feeds into email means I have the local content available for searching, and am not tied to desktop/mobile, or a particular machine.

(Rewritten in go, primarily because the standard r2e was the last daemon/program on my host that required python. So switching let me drop a whole bunch of dependencies.)