I’ve gotten to a point in my privacy journey where it’s less about moving towards private options, and more about relaxing and having some fun with what I can do.

I put off messing around with RSS for a while. I simply didn’t have a significant need for it. However, after finding no good options to monitor various Lemmy communities without logging in, I decided to try out an RSS reader.

I settled on Feeder as my RSS reader, despite a few missing features I would like. I added my first Lemmy community as a feed, to try it out. I was immediately surprised how well it worked.

I also added other feeds, such as Tails News, and I was happy with that. I could monitor all the communities I needed to.

Then, I noticed one day, there was an RSS button for my Lemmy inbox. This is where I was really pleased: I can view my notifications without the need to log in, all in the same place.

Lemmy and RSS are both incredible, and I truly believe RSS is the hidden backbone of the internet. I love it, and maybe you should give it a try too!

(Ahem P.S. if anyone has an RSS reader as good as Feeder for Android that fixes this issue, please let me know)

  • Radioactive Butthole@reddthat.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I find if I add a few RSS feeds and then come back a few days later I have 800 unread links, get overwhelmed, and delete the app. I’ve never been able to make RSS stick for me.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 days ago

    i gotta be real, i don’t get the hype people go on about with RSS, it’s like being hyped about DNS

    yeah sure it’s a good protocol that should be used more, but it’s uh, it’s just a feed? i don’t see what’s so amazing about it, do some people just subscribe to 5000 email newsletters and stuff like that?

    • abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es
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      13 days ago

      @Charger8232 @Swedneck For me I kind of finally discovered that Its bloody handy to pull together content from different sources into something like Frendica … you can flip between different groups of feeds.and easily.share stuff from there.

  • Adda@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My only gripe with RSS is the usual dependency on a synchronization server (whether it is a 3rd party server or self-hosted). I have been searching for way too long for a local-first RSS application for both Linux and Android which would store the RSS feeds (as in, the downloaded posts) in a local folder that could be then synchronized between Linux and Android applications using Syncthing or similar. Sadly, still no results. Anyone know about something?

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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      1 month ago

      There’s always decsync but despite the author claiming it isn’t dead, I say it’s dead. 😥