I've recently started using RSS, and I love it.
General news, tech news, release notes of certain apps I use, peertube uploads of channels I like, notifications about limited-time free games, and all of that in one place.
Pretty cool if you ask me
I feel like I'm out of the loop here, why would anyone not "still use RSS", what would the new better replacement be?
Without RSS I'd stop following the vast majority of online content. I'm not checking all these different websites individually, where their follow options have substantially less functionality.
I currently have 121 feeds. Podcasts, youtube channels, TV show releases, some blogs, a surprising number of reddit searches, etc. I used to have substantially more feeds but I trimmed it heavily a couple of years ago - mostly I stopped follow the news so closely for my sanity.
It might sound kind of overwhelming but I create pretty strict filters so I get maybe a dozen updates on a busy day.
I don't know what I would do without RSS. I started with Google Reader back in 06 or so. Then went to Feedly, now Inoreader. Between that and podcasts, I have about 200 RSS subscriptions divided into categories: world news, local news, sports, science, entertainment, philosophy, etc. I don't read every article of course, but I do have highlighted keywords to make sure I don't miss important stuff when scanning.
Been using it since the days of Google Reader, but it’s been discouraging to see some places stop supporting it. And the accumulation of sites that just stop posting one day always make me sad to look at.
Any good recs to add to my dwindling feed?
I use Fluent Reader on Linux and subscribe to a variety of tech related blogs and articles to keep up to date. It’s nice to see what you want to see and not just slop articles and ads all the time.
I use it for getting comic strips, news and events. Funny thing I use it alongside Nitter to also get updates on local accounts, such as government, nearby events, etc.
RSS feeds are my main way of staying up to date. I mainly subscribe to blogs and tech news sites. I'm also subscribed to my local subreddit so I don't miss out on local events even though I don't use Reddit otherwise.
I was using Feedly for years after Google Reader shut down, but they started doing stuff I don't like (E.g you can't subscribe to reddit RSS feeds any longer, you have to sign in to reddit and set up some link between them). So I switched to Miniflux a few months back.
RSS is amazing. Recently started using it with the Nextcloud News app. Turns out I've really been missing out on the possibilities.
Loads of stuff, I've pretty much been using InoReader since GoogleRss died, I probably used something in-between but I've been using it forever at this point.
For a while I used it for YouTube subscriptions, but I mostly use it for news and comics.
I've been using RSS daily for more than a decade. Looking at the stats, I'm subscribed to 342 feeds, but 131 of these haven't been updated in at least a year, and 100 feed URLs are no longer reachable. So it's more accurate to say I'm actively subscribed to 111 feeds.
It's a mix of blogs, a bunch of podcasts, some curated news and also some YouTube channels.
I use Feeder (the free and open source one from f-droid, not the proprietary one from the play store).
I subscribe to Axios for world news, a few "tech blogs" like Ars Technica and The Verge, and a few web comics.
TIL there are two apps with the same name, good thing I was using the open source one... But I got it from the PlayStore.
I use it heavily and daily. I have over a hundred feeds now. The main thing I am using it for is YouTube. Every, I think public, playlist and every channel has its own RSS feed. You can install a Firefox extension of whom I forgot the name to expose the feed to you or you can use for example miniflux to directly subscribe to the channel by URL. The feeds aren't subjected to the engagement algorithm AFAIK. So from my subjective perspective you get the unfiltered content. Other than that I also follow a lot of blogs, news and a few webcomics.
