There was a time when Digg and Google Reader were still around that I never touched Reddit. I would just have Google Reader with a bunch of useful RSS feeds and if I wanted to have some social element, there was Digg. Then Digg shit the bed, Google got bored of Reader and I ended up on Reddit.

I think you’re right. It’s time to get RSS back in place.

Let’s take this opportunity to list out your favourite RSS websites. Let us know what all are your favourites.

Over reliance on algorhythms has degraded the user experience to the point that the average user is drowning in ragebait and extremist politics, because they drive up engagement

People on Reddit, a vote based platform, used to say this all the time and the front page was filled with ragebait.

Even here, sort by hot or top and most of it is anti-reddit/meta/twitter/capitalism memes or infuriating news articles.

Go back further, what hits the front page of large newspapers? Not puppies, that's for sure.

At some point we have to stop blaming "the algorithm" and recognize that it's human behaviour to seek out ragebait that trains the algorithms. Only way to remove ragebait from algorithmic or voter based platforms is to retrain the way we seek content really.

Wow I've been doing this for years and my kids thought I was a dinosaur. Is it cool again?

Lemmy supports RSS! You can use it to subscribe to communities and, even better, your inbox! Easy way to be notified of replies/dms/etc.

Shameless plug: I made a magazine, @rss, for RSS. It has approximately zero content right now but I'd love for people to start using it to exchange ideas, comments, and questions about feeds.

Taking the opportunity to plug my new favorite RSS app, Feeder. I found it recently from another Lemmy user. It's FOSS, no ads, beautiful, and has lots of features. Here it is on Google Play and F-Droid.

This is how the Reddit “addicts” can get by without Reddit and help generate content elsewhere. Find an interesting article that you’d like to discuss or see other people’s opinion on in your RSS feed? Post it to kbin or Lemmy (or whatever you use).

I completely forgot RSS was a thing even though I’m kinda old. Just got the Feeder app on iOS and added a bunch of feeds I’m interested in. Now I can scroll through and it’s kinda like browsing Reddit but without the comments section.

My problem with rss is that I can't get rss feeds from 10 different websites and curate them into a single feed. The services I looked at charged out the ass for this and I couldn't find a program to do it locally.

I don't want to subscribe to someone else's feed.

Reeder for iOS is a great app. I think one of the most minimal and beautiful apps. It’s paid though.

If you want to keep up to date with your feeds on multiple platforms you might consider a self hosted solution like freeRSS or a website like theoldreader.com I use the ladder but in the last few days I noticed an increase in ads which might indicate that it's time for a change

One could also add SubReddits as RSS feeds. I wonder if we can do that for Lemmy also

How does one do this? Because I can think of a few ideas for this.

I've actually created a Lemmy instance (Lemmy.link) to bridge the gap between RSS feeds and Lemmy. We have 36 communities (topics) you can subscribe to from your home instance. Each community has the RSS sources listed in the "Feeds" section of the community sidebar. I'm always open to feedback on new community ideas or how to make it better. Currently I'm working on having the bot parse the article and ignore if it is an ad or sponsored and also including the channel name in the subject line for YouTube sources. Eventually I'd also like to train a model on which topics don't receive upvotes or comments and attempt to ignore them for a better signal:noise ratio.

I've been using RSS for a decade or more--and love it. I currently have over 100 subscriptions at Feedly.com, which is my current favorite all-platform reader.

I have a list of all my subreddits as RSS feeds. Did some text transforming to add the RSS links and used an OPML generator to make the file. I was not adding 600+ subreddits individually, lol.

I've collected loads of RSS feeds, from Congress (bills and other happenings, etc.) to the NY Times, and Science Daily with their topic feeds. GitHub has a few OPML files, though some of the feeds are out of date. Tumblr used to have a way to export your followed blogs as OPML, but that broke at some point in 2020. Mastodon has RSS feeds for every profile, but it's a pain to collect, as their CSV export outputs the address in the wrong format for the feed.

I use Feedbro on Firefox, and QuiteRSS & RSS Owlnix on my Windows desktop. I also use Podcast Addict on my phone for my podcasts and keep a copy of the OPML file in my RSS reader as backup.

RSS is the best -- I've been self hosting a personal tt-rss server since the time google reader went down and never looked back when it comes to "a place to scroll and get all kinds of great info/news/entertainment/etc" and for the most part even a lot of the "big places" still support it, or you an use services like https://morss.it/ to generate them.

I’ve been using Thunderbird for programming.dev feeds. I don’t know if there’s anything better but it works for me

I really don't follow any news website but I want to try this. So are there any Android apps which would suggest me some RSS feeds based on my interests?

Actually only news feed I can kind followed for a while was Google Discover. It would somehow(obviously with the data it stole frok me) would curate me articles which grab my interest. I wonder if there is any app like Google Discover but FOSS or at least privacy oriented.

Youtube has rss feeds as well, but nowadays they're hidden in the page source (you can just search for rss in the source)

Works for streamers as well, but the rss feed with trigger twice. Once for when they schedule the stream, and once for when the stream ends.

Anyone got a good recommendation for Firefox?

I don't know anything about RSS. Can someone point me in the right direction to start?

Serious question. Why don’t sites stop providing a feed and force users to their website to get ads showing?