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    sab ,

    I think the key here is that it's a feed managed by the user. There's not enough commercial potential in that. As a tech company, you want to be the one curating the feed, and you want the user to believe you're doing it in their best interest so they don't notice how you're making money by subtly feeding them ads.

    RSS is simply too good for the contemporary internet.

    SamsonSeinfelder ,

    Check out Selfoss, a self-hostable Online RSS tool, to browse and manage your feeds from the desktop and mobile

    noodlejetski ,

    I used to follow a TON of webcomics via RSS, first on Feedly, then on Inoreader, but a few years ago I've stopped opening my feed for certain reasons (and now I'm afraid to even think of the backlog). I've started getting into RSS again about a year ago, followed some blogs and small news websites, and I've been loving it! currently using my Nextcloud provider's RSS option with the official Nextcloud News app on Android and RSS Guard on PC (I haven't found one that integrates better with Plasma desktop yet).

    po_tay_toes ,
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    I use RSS feeds to subscribe to YouTube channels without a google account.

    UmbraTemporis ,

    Piped is good too btw

    helenslunch ,
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    LibreTube works better.

    Yearly1845 ,

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    helenslunch ,
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    That's a Piped thing. You just have to disable the Piped API unless you run your own server.

    Yearly1845 ,

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    helenslunch ,
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    Okay well they've been having problems for the last couple of months. That's the risk you take when relying on a 3rd party service. Try GrayJay.

    smeg ,

    I use RSS feeds to subscribe to Lemmy communities! (well, specifically my own one)

    spaduf ,
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    Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

    ALostInquirer ,

    Would you happen to mean readers with filtering tools? If so I'm interested as well.

    I know Thunderbird technically has them, but I've had trouble making them work as effectively as I'd like. RSSOwl had some that were easier to work with, but stopped being updated. There's now a fork of it called RSSOwlnix, but I haven't taken the time to see whether it still works as well or not. May be worth looking into though...

    spaduf ,
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    Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

    jarfil ,
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    I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters.

    Sounds like an opportunity to integrate some AI... 🙈

    spaduf ,
    @spaduf@slrpnk.net avatar

    We don't need to use that word here

    sourov ,

    Fluent Reader

    smeg ,

    Don't know what you mean by "actual content surfacing features", but I'm quite happy with Feeder, it's pretty basic but it's FOSS and the notifications work!

    spaduf ,
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    Posted elsewhere: Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters and grouped feeds. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

    smeg ,

    Fair enough, I'm not aware that Feeder has any of that. I don't even want filtering or groups, I just want a notification of every new post on a community or website!

    originalucifer ,
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    mbin is my rss reader. fediverse instance + bot

    mozz Admin ,
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    Which RSS bot do you use? I was going to make one for my RSS feeds, but if there already is one...

    originalucifer ,
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    for lemmy, its pretty straight forward with this bot

    https://github.com/programming-dot-dev/rss-bot

    for the 'bins, there doesnt exist a direct-to-mbin bot yet (i've been workin on it.. i suck at logins), in the meantime youd use a lemmy instance as intermediary:

    you setup a non-public, localized lemmy instance, have the bot configured for your needs to grab feeds into communities, then subscribe from your 'bin instance.

    kreynen ,

    @originalucifer is there an issue/branch/fork where bins support is happening? I'd like to help with that if I can.

    @ginerel @mozz

    mozz Admin ,
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    Yeah, I'd like to as well; I just messaged them asking about it.

    mozz Admin ,
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    Are you comfortable sending your work so far on the mbin bot? I did the same thing you did; I picked it up but then ran into the OAuth stuff and got confused. I actually have an RSS mbin bot that was going for a while that was based on just local database access, but working out the OAuth stuff seems like a better way and I'm happy to take another crack at it.

    originalucifer ,
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    ha, i dont because were in the same place... was playing with awesomebot, but then started attempting to hack the pangora bot starting with the login first, but i got roadblocked at the login and havent really had time to sort it.

    Engywuck ,

    Why should people stop telling other people what they should do in 2024...

    testman ,

    Problem is that the whole concept of advertising is "telling other people what to do".

    • People use Google.
    • Google tells people to use Chrome
    • Chrome becomes most popular browser
    • Chrome removes the " this site has RSS" icon from URL bar
    • People forget that RSS is a thing
    • People now rely on Google News and other biased sites to get information
    • biased sites tell people what to do

    RSS is freedom
    go tell other people to use it
    also Lemmy RSS community

    Engywuck ,

    go tell other people to use it

    I'm not going to tell anyone what they should do, sorry. And every site is biased, no matter what.

    mp3 ,
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    There's no way I'd be able to keep track of all the stuff I want without an RSS reader.

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