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.
A no-install, no-config option I built for this purpose: https://rss.diffbot.com
Interesting, ill try this
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
'continue without agreeing'
instant w
Thanks a lot. Looks real good and added to my feeds
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.
Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.
I need to dive into substack to see if it can work with my rss reader. Is Heather Cox worth the subscription?
Arts and letters daily is great. Overlaps a bit with your interests, though not every day.
Aldaily.com
Indeed not fully convinced but not bad either. Gonna give this a go, thanks!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What's wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don't use Outlook by choice?
UI is too bloated, slow, resource hungry and I've had problems with displaying some feed content in the past.
Outlook
God forbid.
Reeder on iOS and Mac is excellent. Not open source, but lovingly crafted by an indie dev.
I had been using Fluent Reader for months, suddenly the program wouldn't load up at all upon start. No visible GUI. Didn't back up my subscriptions so now I lost all my RSS links with it. :-/ Hopefully there's an update soon, or someone has a trick to retrieve my subscriptions, at least.
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.
I've used Feedly for years and it makes keeping with various types of news so much easier.
I recently switched to a self hosted FreshRSS. I used Feedly for probably a decade tho.
Me too. I went Google reader to feedly and have been there since
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.
NetNewsWire works great for me.
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.
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.
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?
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
I never stopped. I went from feeds in Netscape Navigator to Google Reader to Feedly and now I self-host Miniflux.
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.
Not sure why you were down voted, thanks for the recommendations!
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
