RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a simple, standardized content distribution method that can help you stay up-to-date with your favorite newscasts, blogs, websites, and social media channels. Instead of visiting sites to find new posts or subscribing to sites to receive notification of new posts, find the RSS feed on a website and read new posts in an RSS reader.

Do you use RSS to curate your own information feed? Looking to expand my sources to include different perspectives and new interesting topics and would love any suggestions.

  • Bill@lemm.ee
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    Yeah. I run my own FreshRSS server and use FeedMe to access it. It’s mostly just a bunch of UK newspapers and tech news sites because I realised I was getting all my news from Twitter and I wanted to cut back my use of Twitter. It’s fine. The great thing about getting my news from social media was that I’d follow a load of people with similar interests to me so I’d mostly just see articles that interested me regardless of the source. Now it takes more scrolling to get past the articles I don’t care about to find the ones I want to read. It means I get a broader overview of news that isn’t effectively curated for me, either by other people or by algorithm, but it’s not as engaging. It is the right choice though if you’re looking to see more outside of what you’re usually shown, as you say.

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    I have been an RSS user for the past 20 years. I use it for all sorts of stuff including current news, keeping up with technology, health, classified listings (craigslist), site updates, forums, etc.

    I used GoogleReader for a long time (RIP), now I use Feedly which is amazing. I hit the ALL button so I get a firehose of news feeds which are sorted by timestamp, NOT some dumb algorithm choosing when and what I see.

    As I tell everyone, whenever a current event happens in the world, I see 20+ different headlines from different sites spinning the same story. This lets me cut through the BS and see the real story about what’s happening.

    I subscribe to a few hundred RSS feeds including a bunch of random useless ones. But here’s a few I picked that might be beneficial - note that some of these sites have multiple rss feeds depending on specific topics - be sure not to subscribe just to the main “top stories” feeds.

    ABCNews , InvestorPlace, Associated Press, Ars Technica, The Nation, BBC News, CNN, Fox News, The Hill, LA Times, New York Times, MSNBC, Mother Jones, NBC News, NPR, Newsweek, Politico, Time, Scientific America, Slashdot, Techcrunch, TechRadar, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, The Independant, Motley Fool, Google News Top Stories, USA Today, Vox, Wired, Yahoo News, Cnet, Men’s Health, TechRepublic, WallStreetJournal, TheStreet

    I’d also love to hear some other news sources I can add to my subscriptions, because I know I’m missing a bunch of good ones

  • Andonome@lemmy.world
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    About 50% of what I read online is just RSS. For cli fans, newsboat lets you extend the RSS feeds really easily. So far, I have:

    • gemini translation, to get gemini feeds, and a hotkey to open them.
    • a hotkey to open things in w3m (most articles work fine in the terminal, many are easier to read)
    • a hotkey to open youtube videos
    • another to download them and watch later
  • Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Yeah. It’s the easiest way to stay up to date on news without getting blasted with ads. Almost all news apps are bloated with bullshit features.

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    I’ve tried so many RSS platforms but it doesn’t work for me (I blame my ADHD). As sad as it is, I always got my country & world news from Reddit in the past.

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      Great thing about rss is that you can rss reddit subs too, and even use reddit front ends to set up the rss.

  • xXxBigJeffreyxXx@lemmy.world
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    I use Inoreader, it provides a great way to quickly get up to speed on the news, without relying on ‘human curators’ on reddit or twitter. I’ve been able to add lemmy and kbin community feeds no problem, and it currently serves as my ‘front page’, until lemmy itself becomes more stable.

    Auto-de-duplication and word filters help me keep my sanity and avoid the constant musk-worship on tech sites.

  • TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world
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    Before hosting my own FreshRSS instance I used TheOldReader (and Google Reader before that). It’s a great way of focusing you’re attention and keep track of sites. It does hurt them though, since it won’t load their ads.

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      On the other hand, if you also use adblocker, RSS hurts them less by being more efficient on their servers.

    • BrikoX@vlemmy.netOP
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      Anything really. Almost any website you use probably supports it from video platforms like YouTube to Lemmy you are posting from.

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        Yeah I do know it’s available. I just can’t think of any source which would interest that much

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    Yes, I use feedly. Newsblur is restricting a lot of things in their free version, but I find Feedly more open.

  • Kaan@lemmy.kweb.ovh
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    Yeah, been selfhosting freshrss for years. I use it as much as possible. Even for GitHub releases and subreddits. I see that lemmy has an RSS link too.