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

Inoreader works very nicely for me. I have quite a few folders set up... Stuff I had bookmarks for, but rarely visited lately...

  • Digg Top Stories (43 unread) if I get bored - at least a dozen of those will keep me entertained.

Stuff from the 'other' place - useful fodder to consider 'bridging' or just 'copy/pasting' over in Fediverse :P

I added the Firefox extension, so if I visit Youtube - for example (open this in a PRIVATE window, not logged in) Insights from Ukraine and Russia then I can Easily add the RSS by searching in Inoreader.

Here's Daily Dose of Internet

The beauty being that you can quickly go through all this stuff - great keyboard accessibility (90% covered with Shift J-K to go to the next/previous feed, Shift-X to toggle expansion of the folder, J - K to go (and mark read) the next/previous item (but you can ALWAYS view all articles in a thread)... all without visiting the sites.

Feedly and Inoreader are both awesome - and you can (and should regularly) export a list of your feeds as a backup/migration strategy.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago

    Feedly is great, use it for my private RSS stuff.

    At work, on macos, I use rssbot - which isn't an RSS reader but just an ... uhm ... rss linker? It doesn't feature the capability to read content but just gives you a list of links to anything new. If that's enough for you, it's a great app.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I have never understood what RSS is or how to access it even after looking it up

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

    RSS is one of the oldest protocols existing. Basically it's like a feed with links to things posted...

    I'd suggest you start with Feedly or Inoreader, make an account and take a look.

    For me, it means that I can see notifications (Inoreader) telling me how many unread items have occurred across the 79 websites I added as feeds.

    • I have a folder for 'Fediverse' with feeds like Lemmy - ukraine (also Reddit's r/ukraine).

    • I have a 'Linux' folder, containing a few interesting blogs - like Niccolo's KDE developer blog, a few news sites, plus announcements from my OS forum.

    • I have a 'News' folder with various sources (one is a journalist I know with a Facebook page - as I don't use Facebook).

    • I have a 'Video' folder

    • I have a 'Time Waster' folder which has things like Digg, WindowSwap, Drive & Listen

    Basically, any time you make an account and request updates from a website, the same can be done with NO account and simply copying the RSS link.

    It gives you updates on things you don't need to bother bookmarking or opening to follow.

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