I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?
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.
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’ve never thought of using it for video subscriptions. Great idea to have everything all in once place.
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.
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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.
Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.
@privsecfoss Newsboat and feedly
Blogs, local news sources, weather sources. Some gov.uk reports. Although I’ve tried several clients I keep falling back to Thunderbird and Aggregator (simple Android client).
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 subsribe and feetch news from them via RSS in a web or local client. IMHO the way things should work 🙂
I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.
- For my Mastodon feed, so I don’t have to open yet another app
- For my Youtube and Nebula subscriptions, same
- For a few FB pages & others that post events, same
- For my Lemmy feed, same
- For all my news feeds (curated, usually) for a quick look at everything
- For my friends’ posts so I know I won’t miss a single one
I currently use the premium plan for Inoreader. I like tinyRSS, just didn’t do it for me; I’ve been using RSS since Google Reader.
For RSS feed recommendations you can also take inspiration from this post: https://beehaw.org/post/618286
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…
I follow press releases from software and orgs I like, follow local newspapers, follow personal blogs and Youtube channels. I also use Reddit RSS.
Nothing unusual with my feed - news, tech, science, environment. What I may do differently is I set up a filter on Mastodon so any of my feeds are only seen in rss. I really don’t need to see a Wired article 6 times.
Would you mind sharing some of your favorite blogs and webcomics?
