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Do you still use RSS? If so, what are some neat feeds you follow? I'm always looking for fun ones.
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Ebussy gitlab:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/ebassi.atom
Ebussy Discourse:
https://discourse.gnome.org/u/ebassi/activity.rss
Ebussy mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@ebassi.rss
Ebussy blog:
https://www.bassi.io/feeds/all.atom.xml
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>>108774053
RSS feeds are a bit of a time sink, I never bothered setting them up again after reinstalling my OS. I'm not even sure what the most convenient way of viewing them is (outside of self-hosting FreshRSS with community addons, which is a cool, but overkill).

That said, I mostly used it for:
>local news
>How-To-Geek (mostly their software listicles tbqh)
>more general tech news that I rarely read (you can find lists on the official /g/ wiki's RSS articles: Slashdot, BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, Tech Crunch, Futurism etc.
>The Hard Times & Hard Drive for occasionally funny satire
>AlternativeTo's RSS feed for software update news
>HackerNews for slop
>mainstream news slop to scroll through while on the toilet (Feeder is still king on mobile afaik)
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>>108774186
Oh and TorrentFreak for piracy news.
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I made a simple app for my FreshRSS instance the other day. I tried to tell a few people, no one knows what RSS is.
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>>108774294
>I made a simple app for my FreshRSS instance the other day.
What does this mean? Back when I used it, I just connected through the browser. Although calling mine self-hosted is a bit of a stretch, it was running on my day to day Windows PC using an Apache server.
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>>108774358
You don't have to use the web interface, you can also use it through the API. Here is a list of apps, I like Capy Reader the best. But I wanted to make one for myself.
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS#apis--native-apps
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>>108774397
Interesting. I never tried to use it across devices, apps might've been more useful for that.

In truth, I only used it because of this extension that lets you fill the screen with feeds side by side, I couldn't find any other reader that did that: https://github.com/tryallthethings/freshvibes
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>>108774053
i do use it
I use it to keep track of manga/webnovel releases and youtube channels
I also have some reddit/youtube search query feeds that let me keep abreast of topics of interest (not that useful desu)
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>>108774463
>reddit/youtube search query feeds
Sounds interesting. Are they difficult to create? I'm used to just clicking the antenna icon from Livemarks (Firefox) to get the feed address, I never tried making a custom one myself.
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>>108774053
>Do you still use RSS?
Yes.
>what are some neat feeds you follow?
- Powershell blog
- Wndows blog
- phoronix
- This Week in plasma
- And local news.
But yeah I too want other RSS feeds. But RSS seems to be dying though, even though YouTube and websites like it are getting worse.
I used to be massively into YouTube still am to a degree but that's an addiction issue where my mind thinks it can get great videos weekly but that's far form the case it's rare nowadays and I have been adding RSS into the mix because of it.
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>>108774592
I use the Feedbro browser extension, which comes with a 'Find feed in current tab' dropdown action. This yields:
>reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Isekai/search.xml?q=bookworm&sr_nsfw=&restrict_sr=1&sort=new
Remove the .xml and it becomes a normal reddit search url
>youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ascendance+of+a+bookworm&sp=CAISAhAB
which is. bizarrerly, precisely the normal url for youtube searching

Tbh the youtube one is much less useful now that youtube no longer lets you sort by upload date, so it's now pretty static.
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>>108774640
Thanks!

>Tbh the youtube one is much less useful now that youtube no longer lets you sort by upload date, so it's now pretty static.

Technically, you can get around that to some extent by adding "after:yyyy-mm-dd" to the search text. You'd have to change the feed address every once in a while though and the current ordering algorithm is only known by whatever demonic entity removed the "sort by upload date" option to begin with.
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>>108774186
>>108774053
I use FreshRSS as a replacement algorithm for YouTube's. Even have content categories.

Why? 'cause in the attention economy, I don't want retarded skibidi shorts, and there's channels where people are actually competent in what they do.
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>>108774634
I also use syndic on Kde Plasma and fluent reader on Windows.
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>>108774700
you still need to place the channels in manually right? I assume FreshRSS doesn't suggest new feeds
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i don't follow anything. but i do use feedly for what's practically archiving purposes for a couple of feeds, which comes handy like once a year.
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yep
most useful rss are massive so I get them filtered with AI
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>>108774828
>>most useful rss are massive so I get them filtered with AI
>Trolling outside of /b/
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>>108774053
Never used it cuz I'm stupid
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XML is lame I wish everyone used something plaintext like twtxt.
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>>108774888
It's very easy to use anon. Just install the Feedbro extension. Or Feeder on mobile. Feedbro lets you scan pages for feeds, then you add those feeds to whatever you're using to read them (including Feedbro itself) and you're done! You can of course change some settings, create categories, filter (block) some words, change the number of articles in each feed etc., but the basics are very easy.

I believe Chromium browsers still have RSS support built-in. If you want it on Firefox default, you could install Livemarks. Then you can read feeds directly from your bookmark folders. Obviously, you don't need it if you use Feedbro or some other extension.

Self-hosting FreshRSS and stuff like that is a bit more of a journey, but not that much more difficult. It's probably overkill for most people though.
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>>108774848
it\s tru
this is the container for 4 or 5 weeb subreddits, they produce 1000 items per day of crap. After filtering it's less than 3 per day
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>>108775154
Interesting. Did you make/vibecode that interface yourself or is it downloaded from somewhere?
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>>108775154
>>it\s tru
>>this is the container for 4 or 5 weeb subreddits, they produce 1000 items per day of crap. After filtering it's less than 3 per day
>Reddit
>Long text without a clear subject.
Why are you doing this to yourself?
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>>108775167
vibecoded
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Found this article while looking for different RSS stuff. Lighthouse have their own SaaS paid RSS whatever, but the article seems decent nonetheless, or at least the chart (pic related):
https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-reader-deep-dive

I wouldn't pay for stuff like this, but maybe there's some commercial use case that I'm not aware of.
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>>108775220
Thanks. What model did you use?
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>>108774053
I subscribe to feed.home.arpa/podcasts, which is my podcast feed generator that serves whatever media that's in /home/shared/podcasts. It works pretty good.
>>108774592
RSS is extremely difficult to create / parse, don't bother.
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>>108776253
>RSS is extremely difficult to create / parse, don't bother.
He literally told me how to do it in the next post. I will say that I have not had much success creating custom feeds for sites that don't support them officially, with stuff like rss-bridge, in the past, so you're kind of correct.
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>>108774053
Gaming/tech news, a couple of webcomics, some hobby stuff like a couple of motorbike blogs and a music blog. I feed a couple of X (formerly Twitter (formerly twttr)) accounts into it through Nitter. Takes me about 10 minutes to scroll through in the morning and according to Wallabag I save about 5 articles a day.
Many websites still server RSS even if there's not a link to it anywhere on the page. I don't think the technology will ever truly die because so many sites use it and don't even know
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>>108774186
>I'm not even sure what the most convenient way of viewing them is
if the use case is reading news, I used a self-hosted (localhost only) commafeed instance until I decided that news were bad for my mental health... so I don't use rss anymore
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test
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>>108774729
no, it doesn't suggest feeds. As it should be.
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>>108774729
Holy subhuman.



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