Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.
  • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
    29 days

    I use aggregators because I like commenting not just reading

    • flameleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28 days

      I use RSS to aggregate my aggregators because I don’t like my reading and commenting to be tied to a single platform

    • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
      29 days

      Fediverse integration into feed readers seems like next step for them. Not just a link to share an article, but integrated discussion using your preferred Lemmy or Mastodon or whatever server. It would have to discover threads since you are getting the actual link from RSS.

  • psyc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29 days

    I started using NetNewsWire on iOS and it works great. Developer has been updating it constantly with all sorts of improvements and moving away from algorithms to my own personal list of RSS feeds has been a breath of fresh air

  • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
    28 days

    I remember when everyone was killing RSS, hell Firefox even removed their built-in one, now people are waking up.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28 days

    RSS is one of the things I have been using for ages. I setup all my favorite news sources and just browse it instead of going to any one website in particular. It works great and makes it so much easier.

  • ranzispa@mander.xyzEnglish
    27 days

    I love RSS feeds. One thing I’d like to work better is for websites with comment sections. It would be cool if you could read the article and have the possibility of the comments to also show up. I know some websites have separate feeds for comments, but I never understood how to make that into a usable experience.

  • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28 days

    I use feeder in my phone the last 5 years. I shouldn’t have dropped my personalised RSS feed 8 years ago.