I’m more interested in good RSS feeds than RSS readers. Of courseI’ve got all my news in there, but I’m looking to add interesting feeds but don’t know where to look.
What are you interested in? I might suggest you some.
Thanks! I’m into psychology, technology, history and analytics of current affairs (background of conflicts or consequences for the rest of the world). I would love to hear your tips, if you’ve got some good recommendations.
I get a lot of mileage out of The Conversation’s feeds (https://theconversation.com/) – interesting academic-ish essays, written for a lay audience
Thanks a lot. Looks real good and added to my feeds
Commenting to come back later for recos
Holy shit, I just drafted a long list as a comment on you and forget to click post.
😓, damn you Jerboa for Lemmy.
I might post the list again later.
Arts and letters daily is great. Overlaps a bit with your interests, though not every day.
Indeed not fully convinced but not bad either. Gonna give this a go, thanks!
Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.
I never stopped. I went from feeds in Netscape Navigator to Google Reader to Feedly and now I self-host Miniflux.
Similar here, Google Reader -> Feedly -> selfhosted TT-RSS -> selfhosted FreshRSS
Love me some RSS.
i think youtube still supports rss feeds
i think some channels can turn it off but most don’t.
Is that buried in the UI behind paywall and requiring an account?
nope, it’s just the channel url. works with most rss readers.
watching the actual video isnt available, it’s just a chronological feed.
The problem is finding a good local, desktop based RSS reader other than thunderbird or a damn server app, especially if you’re on Windows.
Btw, what is a non-local RSS reader? I have come across multiple that RSS readers that advertise being “self-hosted” and I’m confused about that since in my mind RSS readers are simply clients that periodically query different servers for an .rss file, so I’m confused about where there is anything to host besides the host of the .rss feed.
Cross device synchronization, battery optimization for mobile devices, faster update speeds, etc.
The idea is to imitate the experience of something like Feedly, an RSS feed you can access from anywhere on any device, recommendations, all that… Which is overkill if all you want is just a simple program that queries for new posts every x hours.
I find the Feedbro plugin for Firefox quite handy.
It’s what I’ve been using recently, but I really dislike how it’s a browser extension, that and how it can’t really handle audio files from my experience.
Reeder on iOS and Mac is excellent. Not open source, but lovingly crafted by an indie dev.
I’m out of the loop since I’ve been using a self hosted Miniflux, but Raven certainly is an alternative.
It’s also been archived for a year with no revamp in sight.
I use the Feedbro extension right in my browser.
I kinda gave up on rss awhile ago when it seemed like feed availability was dropping and Google dropped support. Disagree with author that the reader doesn’t matter. It can really shape your experience. Appreciate good recommendation for something that doesn’t cost $2 a month.
Hasn’t RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don’t know how true that is.
Probably not technically true because podcasts use RSS
But a few make it very hard to find the .rss link… as do platforms like Spotify or Apple.
When Reddit went to shit I turned to RSS to get my daily news. After trying many different iOS apps, all of which either sucked or had a monthly fee, I came across one called feeeed.
It has become one of my favorite apps and I highly recommend it. It’s free and extremely well designed! I believe its creator also works on the Arc browser team.
I’m using News Explorer. One-time purchase, and syncs your feeds and read/unread status between macOS and iOS/ipadOS.
Hey, thanks… this looks clean/feels really slick.
I definitely recommend turning on List view in the settings. The default card view is okay but it only lets you see 1-2 things at a time vs 5-6.
old.reddit still has RSS feeds for subreddits, if there’s anything you still want to follow there. e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/technology.rss
The lemmy community for my city is completely dead, so I follow the subreddit this way.
I need an android rss reader that ACTUALLY caches the articles. I use feeder and most of the time it just fetches the titles, I’ve been through every setting. “fetch full articles by default” is on for all of my feeds.
Kind of not what you’re looking for, but use rss2email to send everything as a mail to a mail address.
Not sure why you were down voted, thanks for the recommendations!
yes daddy 🥺