I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?

  • slaecker@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:

    • Blogs
    • News-Sites
    • Piped (YouTube) channels
    • GitHub releases
  • apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        I just wrote down simplified versions of my scripts. Then I clicked the wrong button to exit the markdown preview and now it’s all gone. I’ll have to drink a beer now, sorry. If you have any specific questions, I’ll answer them gladly.

  • fitgse@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 year ago

    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
  • bet@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    after Google shut down Reader, I took my OPML (list of subscriptions), and switched to a FOSS local RSS reader; import my OPML and carry on. I’ve switched software occasionally; right now I’m happy with Feeder (from f-droid).

    Getting my news is something I care about too much to entrust to someone’s server; I’m happy with it purely local.

  • Someology@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have never used RSS until literally this week lol. I added the AWS health RSS. I have no idea how it works. Like, I get the idea but not how to practically use it.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    Since I can’t stand twitter, and since so many of my local groups use twitter, I use FreshRSS (self-hosted) to list new posts via Nitter’s RSS feature.

    I also use RSS for Lemmy content and a few Reddit communities I still follow (until they show up on Lemmy) via old.reddit.com.

    And some updates from YouTube channels or software release notes.

    Really, my goal is to consolidate things, so I’m not checking 10 different sources every day.

  • BigTechBlows@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • sibloure@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve never thought of using it for video subscriptions. Great idea to have everything all in once place.