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[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For websites that don't have an RSS feed, check out RSS-bridge! https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

It generates web feeds for websites that don't have one.

[–] TacoEvent@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A no-install, no-config option I built for this purpose: https://rss.diffbot.com

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Interesting, ill try this

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[–] Guadin@k.fe.derate.me 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheOne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What are you interested in? I might suggest you some.

[–] Guadin@k.fe.derate.me 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] keystonerose@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I get a lot of mileage out of The Conversation's feeds (https://theconversation.com/) -- interesting academic-ish essays, written for a lay audience

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

'continue without agreeing'

instant w

[–] Guadin@k.fe.derate.me 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks a lot. Looks real good and added to my feeds

[–] TheOne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.

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[–] doc@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Arts and letters daily is great. Overlaps a bit with your interests, though not every day.

Aldaily.com

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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It’s just a web based client instead of a desktop one. And it can usually output its own RSS feed that contains your other feeds so you can hook any RSS desktop client on any device to it.

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don't use Outlook by choice?

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

UI is too bloated, slow, resource hungry and I've had problems with displaying some feed content in the past.

Outlook

God forbid.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Feedly, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, yarr, etc.

Thunderbird is fine, but I don't really want to interact with my feed how I interact with email.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop since I've been using a self hosted Miniflux, but Raven certainly is an alternative.

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[–] TacoEvent@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Reeder on iOS and Mac is excellent. Not open source, but lovingly crafted by an indie dev.

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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I've used Feedly for years and it makes keeping with various types of news so much easier.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Me too. I went Google reader to feedly and have been there since

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I recently switched to a self hosted FreshRSS. I used Feedly for probably a decade tho.

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[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

NetNewsWire works great for me.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you've read in it.

What is this shitty email program they're talking about? Sure, they can embed a 1-pixel tracking image to see when you opened the email (if you allow auto-loading images), but how would they know how much you've read unless some incredibly horrible email program actively sends out that data?

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[–] BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The author of this excellent article mentioned that we and by extension, our friends, all hate being on TwiXter etc. but cant figure out a day to leave or place to go. While I believe the 'place' should be figured out amongst yourselves and there are many excellent options getting better by the day, I will do the hard thing and choose a time to make it easier for you/us....

December 28th, 2024

Please be sure to have you destination decided ahead of time. Just like voting, I suggest you do it early and feel free to be a part of the advance team that straddles between the new location while still using the former ahead of the 28th.

I believe in you and know you can do it. Tell your friends. ...and you're welcome :)

edit: RSS is a great tool that will make the move easier

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably not technically true because podcasts use RSS

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

But a few make it very hard to find the .rss link... as do platforms like Spotify or Apple.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never stopped. I went from feeds in Netscape Navigator to Google Reader to Feedly and now I self-host Miniflux.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Similar here, Google Reader -> Feedly -> selfhosted TT-RSS -> selfhosted FreshRSS

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] jinarched@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago
[–] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Love me some RSS.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any good readers for IOS that don’t require a subscription (preferably FOSS)?

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 2 points 2 days ago

Twine is a great simple RSS reader and it is open source.

I am currently using NewsBlur because I like how it syncs across devices and its tagging system. It is also open source, but it is not the prettiest and the UX takes some getting used to.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

https://stackdiary.com/free-rss-readers/

This was pretty useful to me.

For android, I use Feeder, but I've also enjoyed Cappy, Neo Feed, Twine, and Nunti. Nunti is a really interesting one that uses a local, private smart algorithm to show you more of what interests you.

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