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Please, Expose Your RSS (rknight.me)
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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

RSS is amazing, everyone should replace all their algorithmic feeds with it. And if your feed is empty do something else...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

How do you get into RSS? Is there like a place you can go to find cool RSS signups? Is there a popular app or software everyone uses for RSS?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use it mostly for Youtube, GitHub changelogs, and blogposts. To add feeds you either have to find some icon on the website that gives you the RSS link or look up how to to create it.

For a youtube channel it would look like this: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVIFCOJwv3emlVmBbPCZrvw This site helps to figure out the channel id for a given channel easily: https://www.streamweasels.com/tools/youtube-channel-id-and-user-id-convertor/ You then copy that link for each channel into the reader and its done.

There are lots of rss readers (apps that let you organize your feeds) for all OS's and i think it comes down to personal choice. I use an android app called "Feeder" and a Linux app called "QuiteRSS" but you can usually export/import all your collected feeds between them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Theres at least a Firefox add-on that will show you an icon when a website has a feed. I forget what it's called though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVIFCOJwv3emlVmBbPCZrvw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

bad bot, doesnt understand non video URL's

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago
  • when Google killed Reader (2013), a lot of people just gave up rather than moving to another reader – effectively just forgetting that RSS even exists
  • auto-discovery has disappeared – Chrome removed the RSS indicator when Google killed Reader, Firefox removed the RSS indicator back in 2018 – unless you have an addon or are specifically looking for an RSS link, there’s no longer any indication that RSS exists
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I still haven't found a FOSS reader that is easy to install. I hate downloading from github and messing with stuff because I'm a moron with knowing if it's malicious or not,

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I don't have Thunderbird but I will probably install it and check it out. I wonder why Firefox stopped showing it? It looks like they're trying to bring it back.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not really sure what Firefox is up to a lot of times. But the Thunderbird's team is really active and receptive right now. They are updating and revamping a ton lately.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Those are both for Linux and I'm on windows. But thanks for the try, they both look great.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Is there any rss app for android that's open source and / or won't make me pay after a couple dozen subscriptions?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

ReadYou on Fdroid

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks Aaron!

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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