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I use RSS to watch YouTube videos. I collect the ULRs of the videos I want to watch in a text file using my feed reader (Newsboat). In the evening a script transfers the file to my TV computer and fetches the videos with yt-dlp.

To play the videos I use another script, which plays and then trashes the video files in a loop.

Pros: no ads, no buffering videos during playback, plays videos without interaction (like TV), can collect video URLs over day, don't have to bother with YouTube's user interface, cookies etc.

I use this lightweight reader by the same dev who makes Bookstack. Just for news though. I use Audiobookshelf for podcasts.

I use freshrss. It is my primary source of information. Here are some of the things I follow:

• Various Local News Sources
• Local City Council Blog
• Various National/International News Sources
• Various Blogs
• Comics (SMBC, xkcd, ...)
• Music Review Sites/Blogs
• Various Record Label feeds (I run a small distributor)
• YouTube Channels :: This is so much better than going to youtube
• New Releases/ChangeLogs of various OSS projects I follow and host
• Various Planet (Gnome/Gnu/Debian/...) Aggregators
• Google Alerts
• Lemmy Communities
• Reddit Communities (We'll see where these go)
• HomeLab/Cron :: Instead of dealing with emails, I generate RSS feeds from my cron scripts/home lab notifications
• Email Subscriptions :: I take some email notification (like new releases on bandcamp) and convert them to RSS

I subscribe to:

• Blogs I find interesting
• Blogs of personal friends
• Projects' blogs and announcements
• Changes to codebase I need to closely monitor (e.g. things I host)
• Videos, mostly on YouTube, but also my PeerTube feed
• Web comics

I don't. Google reader died, and all of the blogs put themselves on social media.

The walled garden is almost complete.

My use is not foss because I didn't find something that fits my needs better than Inoreader. There is the android app which works fine and also a very nice web interface that I can use at work because without thumbnails it looks like a 'boring' list of stuff.

I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:

• Blogs
• News-Sites
• Piped (YouTube) channels
• GitHub releases

Any RSS clients with 2 way syncs?

For qbittorrent for sites I know I will want their stuff.

I use newsboat for all my RSS needs, which is pretty much my main entry point for a lot of things:

• News sites
• Various blogs
• Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)
• Podcasts
• I used to have some subreddits in there too, but those were ritually deleted after June 12th of course

Yes. I use it on my phone. I use AntennaPod for pod casts, and Flym for textual news feeds. Antenna pod in particular is really nice. I finding having this sort of content on a mobile device best.

I use it for recipes! I use the iOS app Mela for recipe storage and it has a built-in RSS feed system to follow recipe blogs so you can easily add new recipes to your collection without having to visit all the sites separately.

Would you mind sharing some of your favorite blogs and webcomics?

Nothing unusual with my feed - news, tech, science, environment. What I may do differently is I set up a filter on Mastodon so any of my feeds are only seen in rss. I really don't need to see a Wired article 6 times.

I use RSS through Readwise Reader though I've used Newsblur in the past. I really wish Newsblur was redesign to get a more modern interface..

Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.