I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?

  • slaecker@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:

    • Blogs
    • News-Sites
    • Piped (YouTube) channels
    • GitHub releases
  • apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    2 years ago

    I use RSS to watch YouTube videos. I collect the ULRs of the videos I want to watch in a text file using my feed reader (Newsboat). In the evening a script transfers the file to my TV computer and fetches the videos with yt-dlp.

    To play the videos I use another script, which plays and then trashes the video files in a loop.

    Pros: no ads, no buffering videos during playback, plays videos without interaction (like TV), can collect video URLs over day, don’t have to bother with YouTube’s user interface, cookies etc.

      • apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        2 years ago

        I just wrote down simplified versions of my scripts. Then I clicked the wrong button to exit the markdown preview and now it’s all gone. I’ll have to drink a beer now, sorry. If you have any specific questions, I’ll answer them gladly.

  • McSinyx@slrpnk.net
    4·
    2 years ago

    I subscribe to:

    • Blogs I find interesting
    • Blogs of personal friends
    • Projects’ blogs and announcements
    • Changes to codebase I need to closely monitor (e.g. things I host)
    • Videos, mostly on YouTube, but also my PeerTube feed
    • Web comics
  • flatbield@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    Yes. I use it on my phone. I use AntennaPod for pod casts, and Flym for textual news feeds. Antenna pod in particular is really nice. I finding having this sort of content on a mobile device best.

  • Ticktok
    3·
    2 years ago

    I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.

  • Someology@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.

  • srpwnd
    2·
    2 years ago

    Would you mind sharing some of your favorite blogs and webcomics?

  • Nilesse@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I use it for recipes! I use the iOS app Mela for recipe storage and it has a built-in RSS feed system to follow recipe blogs so you can easily add new recipes to your collection without having to visit all the sites separately.

  • sibloure@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve never thought of using it for video subscriptions. Great idea to have everything all in once place.

  • fouc@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been using RSS since before Google Reader was a thing. It’s a fantastic way to monitor new papers in journals as almost all journals have been providing a feed since forever. I could go with a self-hosted option but I just ended up using Inoreader although I will probably migrate again. They used to have some entry level plans (they call it supporter plan) at some €20/yr but it looks like they are no longer available for new users.

  • bet@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    after Google shut down Reader, I took my OPML (list of subscriptions), and switched to a FOSS local RSS reader; import my OPML and carry on. I’ve switched software occasionally; right now I’m happy with Feeder (from f-droid).

    Getting my news is something I care about too much to entrust to someone’s server; I’m happy with it purely local.

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
    2·
    2 years ago

    I have never used RSS until literally this week lol. I added the AWS health RSS. I have no idea how it works. Like, I get the idea but not how to practically use it.

    • privsecfoss@feddit.dkOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Instead of going to blogs, YouTube, podcast etc. you subsribe and feetch news from them via RSS in a web or local client. IMHO the way things should work 🙂