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How do you use RSS? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use newsboat for all my RSS needs, which is pretty much my main entry point for a lot of things:

News sites
Various blogs
Youtube channels
Podcasts
I used to have some subreddits in there too, but those were ritually deleted after June 12th of course

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)

This is the way to do it. I can't stand youtube's interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can't figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I've watched and what I haven't.

Using RSS let's me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don't have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.