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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

This right here.

The heyday of RSS is long, long gone. Everything has become a walled garden where platforms want you ON their platform, not reading a feed, or using third-party clients, etc. They want your eyeballs there on their site/service. So many sites don't even offer RSS feeds anymore, and when you get full text, you get piles of ads.

It's the same issue with so many sites/services either shutting down API access or severely restricting it.

I tried really, really hard recently to put together a good list in an RSS reader and tried to make it work. but it just doesn't. It's a miserable experience and you have to fight for every feed you get. It's not worth it. It's sad and extremely frustrating, but unless we can push sites to do a 180 on their strategies, RSS is essentially dead.