 If you’re using social networks to find news about the things you’re interested in (yes, that includes Mastodon), it’s time to stop and use something that was actually made for that: RSS! So I made a quick video about this old tech, and how it’s still the absolute best way of curating what you read, watch, receive, or listen to: 17 comments
@thelinuxEXP In all seriousness, thanks for pushing RSS. I agree with you, it's the best way to get the news you are looking for. @thelinuxEXP I will watch the video, but want to say that RSS is the way to go. I personally use RSS News in Thunderbird, my email client of choice. Combining it was the best idea I ever *head*. The only problem is, that not every website or service has RSS feeds. This makes me sad each time I try to subscribe and find out there is none. @thingsiplay That’s why I use Nextcloud News: it will create an auto feed even if the website doesn’t have one (Feedly also does that for example), and there are websites that will give you a feed for any site, whether they have one “officially” or not :)  Nextcloud news is S-tier. Completely changes how someone consumes news from multiple sources.
@thelinuxEXP That's an interesting feature of Nextcloud News! I have looked into such services, but never used a paid one. And I could not find a solution without "subscribing" to a paid service. But I will look into it again. @thelinuxEXP using RSS for decades now, and any homepage which does not offer is kicked by me  @thelinuxEXP Problem with RSS is companies don't make their RSS feeds available. When things come up in my reader, it's just a headline, and then it opens a browser window anyway. Google Alerts works much better, in my opinion, as I don't have to go out looking for feeds from specific websites, it just sends me anything new regarding the topic straight into my inbox every day. Also there's no mobile/desktop synchronization. @AudraTran It’s not the same purpose, I think, Google Alerts will create a lot of noise compared to picking the websites you want to read. I personally don’t care about having just the titles, I’ll read most things in a browser anyway, the titles are just here to let me decide if I’m interested or not :) @thelinuxEXP Eh. What some consider "noise" others consider "diverse sources". It's a curated feed vs. diverse feed. I don't get any spam or anything. @AudraTran @thelinuxEXP this is why I love Feeder. By default it extracts the article content from HTML, and displays it in a native TextView. It's similar to firefox reader view. @thelinuxEXP Based. I've been selfhosting Yarr for a little while and it's absolutely great to use for viewing local news, blogs and twitter accounts through my nitter instance. @thelinuxEXP i love my rss feed, but unfortunately, it means ive already heard most of the stories before your linux news video hits with them @thelinuxEXP RSS mon amour 🤎 I'm using Feedly since... well... since Google killed Google Reader ofc, but I'll more than happy to switch to another reader, lately I'm a bit annoyed by Feedly UI. @thelinuxEXP I use RSS to subscribe to YouTube/PeerTube/Nebula channels, so convenient to have it all in one place. @thelinuxEXP but many sites make it so hard to find their feeds, of they have it at all. @thelinuxEXP I've been self-hosting a FreshRSS instance for a few months now, and I love it. You can set css filters on every feed to customize what you want to be fetched or not. This is useful to get very clean results even when websites only show headlines for example, you can still get the full content. Will definitely watch this one later, thanks Nick! |
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@thelinuxEXP Old tech? Watch your mouth, whippersnapper! (shakes cane, get off my lawn, etc)