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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume "content." (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It's now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what's new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don't want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here's a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still use it every day to access new content from my YouTube channels that I watch since I don't have a Google account and for tech news.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How do I set this up?

Say I want to get an RSS feed for when Practical Engineering uploads a new video?

I find they just get buried in YouTube and I’d love to set this up for the channels I am really interested so they don’t get lost in the noise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you're down to use Piped as a YT front-end, there's an RSS icon on every channel page in the top right corner.

If you want to use YouTube directly, use the following link and append the channel ID of whatever channel you want to follow: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

Another alternative would be using something like FreeTube, which can use RSS to fetch subscriptions (but doesn't by default unless you're subbed to a high number of channels).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I’ve heard of piped a lot so I’ll have a look at it. Thanks for pointing it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Newpipe has a feed button on the channel page and thats how i got mine. There is probably a simpler way, but I just don't know it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ok thanks. I’ll have a look.