I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?
I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:
- Blogs
- News-Sites
- Piped (YouTube) channels
- GitHub releases
FreshRSS here, too. Tech, State and local news all nicely sorted where I can firehose it or just see small sections.
+1 for FreshRSS. It’s excellent and has been very easy to host for years.
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.
I like that idea! Any chance you would be able to share the script or the general workflow?
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.
I use this lightweight reader by the same dev who makes Bookstack. Just for new though. I use Audiobookshelf for podcasts.
What news do you add to it?
Nothing special, just WaPo, NPR, NYT, etc. I just prefer aggregating all those sites instead of going to them individually when I some that kind of news.
Thanks for explaining!
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
I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.
I don’t. Google reader died, and all of the blogs put themselves on social media.
The walled garden is almost complete.
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.
I use newsboat for all my RSS needs, which is pretty much my main entry point for a lot of things:
- News sites
- Various blogs
- Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)
- Podcasts
- I used to have some subreddits in there too, but those were ritually deleted after June 12th of course
Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)
This is the way to do it. I can’t stand youtube’s interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can’t figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I’ve watched and what I haven’t.
Using RSS let’s me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don’t have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.
Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.
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I use RSS through Readwise Reader though I’ve used Newsblur in the past. I really wish Newsblur was redesigned to get a more modern interface…
Since I can’t stand twitter, and since so many of my local groups use twitter, I use FreshRSS (self-hosted) to list new posts via Nitter’s RSS feature.
I also use RSS for Lemmy content and a few Reddit communities I still follow (until they show up on Lemmy) via old.reddit.com.
And some updates from YouTube channels or software release notes.
Really, my goal is to consolidate things, so I’m not checking 10 different sources every day.
My use is not foss because I didn’t find something that fits my needs better than Inoreader. There is the android app which works fine and also a very nice web interface that I can use at work because without thumbnails it looks like a ‘boring’ list of stuff.
Never used Inoreader, but recently switched to Newsblur which is open source (app installable via F-Droid) and selfhostable. If you don’t want to self host they have a freemium model to use their hosted service, couldn’t tell you what free vs paid gets you but I haven’t bumped into any limits yet. You can also log in to their site to browse via web browser.
So far the app looks better than other open source readers I’ve tried and thumbnails generally load so the lists are a bit livelier.
@privsecfoss Newsboat and feedly
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.
Instead of going to blogs, YouTube, podcast etc. you subscribe to them and feetch news from them via RSS in a web or local client. IMHO the way things should work 🙂
