RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

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.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I use an RSS reader but I’m just using it as a clunky reddit client for my city’s subreddit 😅

        • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yes, I use RSS feeds for all my news/blogs, but before the Reddit migration when I tried to incorporate my subreddits into my RSS feed many of them would stop updating after a day or just return errors.

          Another commenter said to try old.reddit instead, so hopefully that works!

        • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          Ah perfect, I’ll try the old style link then. Thank you!

          edit: So far it works!! We’ll see if it’ll update itself, but really thank you so much for the tip! Now I can look at my local subs without having to go to Reddit directly