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 This is also a great way to follow newsletters without your email inbox getting jammed up. I mostly subscribe to newsletters, turn the emails off, and then read them in my feed reader. Most newsletters provide an RSS feed, or there are some RSS readers that will let you send emails to a special email address so they show up in your feed. 21 comments
@WINGS_radio there are RSS apps, or you can also use a web-based one. here's a good guide: https://derekkedziora.com/blog/rss-guide  @WINGS_radio @molly0xfff  @molly0xfff Cory Doctorow got me fired up about RSS not too long ago. It does make a lot of sense and it certainly ticks all the boxes in terms of media independence. @almad inoreader does it, but it’s a paid feature. there are also free services like https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ @almad @molly0xfff I've seen some recommendations from @hynek to Omnivore refugees: @almad @molly0xfff newsblur provides and email address to forward newsletters to, then provides them like an rss feed. I'm a pretty happy with newsblur in general. @swacknificent @mostlywater @molly0xfff Out of curiositt: my problem is that I do _not_ want to have RSS as a reader; I am using it to triage what I want to read, and send it to my “read it later” app, because I want a single longread source and I am adding a bunch of things (like papers) manually…and last time I checked, Newsblur did not integrate well, and there wasn’t a good way to add ad hoc reads. Has either of those been fixed?  most Mastodon and Reddit pages can be turn into feeds by just adding `.rss` to the end of the url, for Lemmy add `.xml` instead  @molly0xfff I only wish discovering plain, non-propeietary RSS feed URLs wasn't so painful for most podcasts and sites... Vivaldi fortunately shows an RSS feed icon on pages with discoverable feeds! Firefox removed that feature long ago @axleyjc Inoreader has a browser extension that sniffs them out. A lot of readers also have a place where you can pop in the site URL and it’ll find the feed @molly0xfff @axleyjc Another option is the "RSS Preview" extension which puts an RSS button in the #firefox address bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/ @molly0xfff or convert email to RSS via a third party, for example https://notifier.in/ ("free integrations" require neither login nor payment) @molly0xfff almost all Mastodon servers allow by default for someone to follow all your feed by simply entering a URL into your RSS feeder in the form https://<servername>/<username>.RSS There are only a few Hometown servers which give you an option to shut off the RSS feed. Try https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff.rss in your reader to see what I mean.   @molly0xfff And if your reader doesn't support the email feature, there's also Kill The Newsletter which lets you convert email newsletters into an RSS feed. Super handy :) https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ (It's also open source, which I like :) |
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@molly0xfff I wish I understood this. My gmail keeps filling up. I don't even know what an RSS feed is. Do you have to download an app?