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With the decline of twitter and reddit, it's time to take a look at RSS again if you haven't already. (voidfiles.github.io)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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It's always good to be in control of your own content sources.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (5 children)

The problem isn't that I don't know about RSS, it's more that I don't really have any content sources that use it

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You may be interested to know that any Lemmy community can become an RSS feed. Look for the little RSS icon to the right of the Sort Type drop down, click that and it takes you to the RSS feed. That URL can then be pasted into just about any RSS reader and you will see a list of the latest topics. I use ProtoPage as my browser home page and have widgets that show me Beehaw Technology, News, etc. I clicked on one of those stories to come to this post. (By the way, Reddit works this way by just putting an ".rss" at the end of the subreddit's URL. I used that a lot and am ecstatic that Lemmy allow a similar thing!)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    How come?

    I get the top hacker news from an RSS feed (https://hnrss.github.io/), individual blogs, YouTube channels, twitter accounts (getting the RSS feeds from nitter), etc

    Most websites will have RSS hidden underneath.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    the biggest thing that I would use it for would be individual blogs, I just only have 3 or 4 of those that I follow.

    For the others, it doesn't help me that much to centralize them. Like with the hacker news rss feed, I can't comment or interact from the rss reader, so I might as well use the website. With twitter, all of my twitter follows are already centralized on twitter; same with youtube, reddit, or lemmy -- they already have feeds, and I can't interact from my feedreader.

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