I’ve been using RSS since before Google Reader was a thing. It’s a fantastic way to monitor new papers in journals as almost all journals have been providing a feed since forever. I could go with a self-hosted option but I just ended up using Inoreader. It’s not particularly expensive and it does the job.

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.

• For my Mastodon feed, so I don’t have to open yet another app
• For my Youtube and Nebula subscriptions, same
• For a few FB pages & others that post events, same
• For my Lemmy feed, same
• For all my news feeds (curated, usually) for a quick look at everything
• For my friends’ posts so I know I won’t miss a single one

I currently use the premium plan for Inoreader. I like tinyRSS, just didn’t do it for me; I’ve been using RSS since Google Reader.

For RSS feed recommendations you can also take inspiration from this post: https://beehaw.org/post/618286

Some of the sites I would like to follow don’t have RSS. I have tried fiddling with RSS Bridge a few times before but never got it working into a satisfactory workflow.

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.

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.

Blogs, local news sources, weather sources. Some gov.uk reports. Although I’ve tried several clients I keep falling back to Thunderbird and Aggregator (simple Android client).

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 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 self-host FreshRSS and use it for:

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