I've gotten to a point in my privacy journey where it's less about moving towards private options, and more about relaxing and having some fun with what I can do.

I put off messing around with RSS for a while. I simply didn't have a significant need for it. However, after finding no good options to monitor various Lemmy communities without logging in, I decided to try out an RSS reader.

I settled on Feeder as my RSS reader, despite a few missing features I would like. I added my first Lemmy community as a feed, to try it out. I was immediately surprised how well it worked.

I also added other feeds, such as Tails News, and I was happy with that. I could monitor all the communities I needed to.

Then, I noticed one day, there was an RSS button for my Lemmy inbox. This is where I was really pleased: I can view my notifications without the need to log in, all in the same place.

Lemmy and RSS are both incredible, and I truly believe RSS is the hidden backbone of the internet. I love it, and maybe you should give it a try too!

(Ahem P.S. if anyone has an RSS reader as good as Feeder for Android that fixes this issue, please let me know)

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[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

I find if I add a few RSS feeds and then come back a few days later I have 800 unread links, get overwhelmed, and delete the app. I've never been able to make RSS stick for me.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

It's a bit tricky to setup. Are there any relatively updated guides to help point out the best settings/tweaks? How do you go about which communities to include without getting overwhelmed? I also worry about creating too much of a self-enclosed echo-chamber with this aggregation tool approach, but maybe it's just my paranoia showing

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