STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER!

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00:00 Intro
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01:45 Why social media sucks for news
04:04 What is RSS
04:55 Advantages of RSS
06:49 What can you add to your RSS reader
10:13 Choosing an RSS Reader
13:02 Use RSS, not Social media for your News
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The big, main reason social media sucks for news is that they were never designed for that. All the big social media platforms have one goal, and one goal only: to keep you there for as long as they can, so they can show ads, and make more money.
On top of that, things you are subscribed to might also never be shown to you.
You can't really go back to older things, search through what you archived, sort it in a specific way, create your own organization system.
RSS works with 2 components: an RSS Feed Reader, and RSS Feeds. Feeds are what you'll subscribe to: they're just a simple file a lot of websites have, that can be read by the Feed Reader, which will aggregate all these feeds in one place. And RSS has TONS of advantages!
First, you'll only ever get what you subscribed to. There is no algorithm, no recommendations, no ads in between posts. And you can add a LOT of sources: websites, video channels, podcasts, social media accounts, and even newsletters.
Second, all feed readers have organization capabilities.
Third, you can sort things. Fourth, you can go back and search through older articles. Fifth, you can navigate super easily from one article to the other. And finally, it's portable: all readers will let you export and import your feed list.
RSS is all about adding sources, or feeds to your reader.
A lot of websites will display a small orange square icon, which is the RSS logo. Clicking the icon will bring you to the feed, or give you a URL you can copy. That's what you want to add to your feed reader.
But some websites don't have an RSS feed, or an icon to access it. No matter, most RSS feed readers will let you add any website URL, and automatically create an RSS feed for you.
If you want to add videos from a youtube channel, let's say a bearded french Linux content creator, most feed readers will also just let you copy paste the channel's URL and add it as a feed. On Peertube, it's even easier, just click the subscribe button, and you get the ability to access the feed.
You can even add social media posts if you really want to. Using rss.app, you can just copy paste a social media profile in there, and it will spit out an RSS feed you can add to your reader. And you can also add podcasts.
If you're really into RSS, you can also add newsletters. Using the website kill-the-newsletter.com, you can generate an email address and a feed.
The first thing you'll need to pick is obviously an RSS Reader.
If you want a single device solution, it's very easy. On Linux, Newsflash is the one I use.
A few web browsers will give you access to an RSS Feed reader built-in, like Opera or Vivaldi, and Thunderbird also has the ability to do that.
If you want the simplest multi-device solution, Feedly is a good bet. You can create a free account, add up to 100 different feeds, create a few folders, and if you want to go over that, they have paid plans. They have mobile apps, and a web interface on PC.
There's also Newsblur, which does the same thing, and is open source, but the free version limits you to 64 feeds.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

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[@Konkov]

How does it float?

[@DxBlack]

@@Konkov Probably one of those magnet gimmicks from like 4 Christmases ago.

[@Roy_1]

@@Konkov It's a witch

[@fabiobcm]

RSS fell out of favor because Google realized that sending news via RSS would eliminate ads, so they dropped the Google Reader service. And from then on, nobody talked about RSS anymore.

[@Adam-cq1ez]

I am STILL mad that google reader no longer exists. Nothing was as good as it and I’m not sure if any new service is as good. So unmotivated…

[@tparadox88]

I've used Feedly since the day Google announced they were sundowning Reader. It's been getting a bit junked up lately, but it's always done everything I needed.

[@i_a_r_n_a]

@@Adam-cq1ez I switched to TTRSS when Google Reader disappeared -- it's can match the interface and is self hosted

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

They still have it on the blogger

[@turtle11t]

I kinda forgot that exists.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

That’s why I’m making this video :)

[@kushchak007]

Same man, I feel so stupid getting angry over a problem who's solution was one of the first things I saw on the Internet. I miss the good old days

[@st0rmrider]

I still use gReader on Android

[@patternwhisperer4048]

Sadly, this isn't your fault and it's mostly by design from google and the likes

[@JMRVRGS]

Me who saw it as a kid, haven't used it. But when this video shows up, it also amazed me that it still exists.

[@mariocraft95]

I didn’t know RSS could be made to work with so many platforms… It’s a shame that it took me this long to find this. This is exactly what I was looking for to solve my many issues with modern social media. Thanks again for showing me more great alternatives to the different things I use!

[@mariocraft95]

@Henry Haggard may be “ancient” but it’s still amazing, I am using that same app to play around with it as well.

[@osmanghani6457]

It also took me a lot of time to figure out what rss is. Now it has become a great source of news for me. I use Fluent Reader in computer and Feeder in android.

[@Henry-sv3wv]

And a Podcast is an RSS feed giving you audio or video stuff. apps like podcast addict are for that.

[@Grunfeld]

@Henry Haggard Thanks for the heads up on Feedbro. I'm going to try this first, and I'd forgotten about RSS and how useful it was.

[@agathoklesmartinios8414]

As an RSS feed reader I can advise Inoreader, especially if you integrate it with Readwise Reader to sync highlights, tags, etc. Or, you can also choose to just use Readwise Reader's built-in RSS feed reader.

[@ko_tech]

Seconded. I've been using Inoreader for years and it's still great IMO.

[@FengLengshun]

What's Readwise? By highlight do you mean "what's popular/important" or some sort of summary/ranked? Because that's what I've been missing from Inoreader as I don't want to pay.

[@thatrand0mnpc]

+1 Moved from feedly a couple of years ago.

[@yeetyeet7070]

freemium :(

[@artvram]

Can't agree enough. I host my own FreshRSS on a Raspberry Pi. It has totally changed the way I use the internet.

[@avinashthakur80]

Can't say what you relieved me from. I've been looking for a good RSS reader since few months and couldn't find anything good, ended up deciding to build my own. This was till I saw your comment. "FreshRSS" is all I needed.

[@mb31]

Why has it changed the way you use the internet? Pls explain

[@primistandem6781]

@@mb31 instead of going to several websites to check for new articles you simply centralize that in your Rss reader and just check that instead.

[@artvram]

​@@mb31 I don't like being recommended content in an endless stream. You're never finished, and it will take from you as much time as it can. With RSS I subscribe to RSS feeds that I like and when I've read or scanned them all, I'm done. It feels good.

[@Henry-sv3wv]

sadly many news sites break the usefullness of rss making you click their url to their website for the full article ...

[@proctoscopefilms]

I never realized just how big your channel is. Idk of any Linux channel that brings in more traffic. Glad that youre one of the spokesmen of this community, you have a solid vision for what Linux "should" be.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

There’s Diolinux, but it’s for Portuguese and Brazilian speakers, they’re huge! And LearnLinux TV for more server / command line oriented stuff, they’re also bigger than me :)

[@proctoscopefilms]

@@TheLinuxEXP that's right, LearnLinuxTV! Can't think of two better people to guide people into the Linux community. Thanks for doing what you do !

[@johnnysylvia]

Anything that helps people kick social media to the curb is good with me!

[@gssfaw]

Got into rss maybe about two month ago, really good thing for news or for example youtube subscriptions. It's much easier to read all at once instead of visiting every site or subscribing for stupid notification. Also escaping from recommendation is good for me, wasting much less time now

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Absolutely, and it lets you decide when you want to read things, you’re not being pushed around by notifications

[@nudelsuppe3dsemmelknodel990]

Could you please give me some rss feeds so I can get a taste? I think I just need a starting point for me to get fully into rss

[@curryleavesbydhanya]

I had already heard of RSS but never knew it was this useful! Great video!

[@sachinchaudhary1310]

there are so many indians on linux channels

[@del669]

As usual, this channel is always creating fantastic content! Thank you for the great work Nick!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks ☺️

[@adrianbjones]

I am also a long time RSS feed creator and consumer. It was so sad to see it fade out in favour of social feeds.

[@mirage809]

RSS is awesome! Used it for years through a browser extension, but ever since I switched to Linux full time Newsflash has been my tool of choice. It's wonderfully simple and gets me updates when I want them. Fun fact: Google used to provide RSS as an option to track your channel subscriptions. It was killed off however. Probably because it reduced engagement or just because somebody at Google felt like killing off a useful tool that day.

[@JV-pu8kx]

It's built-in to Thunderbird. As is Usenet.

[@negirno]

Subscribing to channels through RSS still works.

[@Roxor128]

@@negirno If Google ever gets rid of that, my usage of the site will drop off considerably. Half the tabs I open on the site come via my RSS subscriptions.

[@Wampa842]

IIRC it still works, but you need to do a bit of digging to find the feed URL.

[@walid6329]

just got into it in the past few days and it's a game changer to get exactly what you want without bs from who you want and it saved a loads of my time in just couple days

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Absolutely!

[@walid6329]

fun fact most of us forgot about it, thanks for the video

[@jimbo-dev]

The issue I have with RSS is that after giving up on Feedly I haven’t been able to find a FOSS alternative I really like and haven’t had the time to develop my own

[@zohaibhamdule]

Did u try Feeder. It's my favourite

[@bionicbison05]

I get your Mastodon posts through RSS! Just means that I don’t have to sign up for another platform that I wouldn’t use otherwise (not a heavy social media user in general, just like getting updates from a few select people).

[@476429]

I've been using RSS since 2005, and I can't imagine reading news any other way. It is mind-boggling that people get their news from Twitter, Facebook, etc. My RSS is very limited compared to many, but I scan through about 30-40 news sources every day. It takes me less than 10 minutes to pick out the articles worth delving into. I'm not sure there's another way to get that breadth of information that fast.

[@kassandercailliau8674]

i’m kinda new to the whole idea of rss, I was born in 2004 so I basically grew up with social media as news source. I’ve always know rss but never used it because at the time a broad newsfeed just wasn’t my first priority. But as I started to go to college I found that a broad amount of articles yet concise amount of sources was the ideal way to keep up with everything that matters to you and your life. So i’m trying to set up a personal newsfeed that works for me, i’ve been using google news, flipboard/feedly and e-mail newsletters for the past 2 years but i’ve found that I usually just end up reading the headlines in google news. I have a feeling that rss will completely change my perception of a personal news network, but I just don’t know how to set up the ideal rss feed… What app do you use to subscribe to rss feeds? Do you take measures to avoid clutter in your feed? (clutter being things like articles you never read from sites with general news topics like google news). I was planning on asking for this on reddit or something but I read your comment and I thought wow that’s exactly what I want my newsfeed experience to be like.

[@reiurusei]

This! Been doing that for close to 15 years or so, never looked back. Keeps you informed, free of noise and sane of mind ;-)

[@avinashthakur80]

This is what I've been trying to build for myself after being frustrated with all social media and online clients.

[@arlind9999]

Every time I saw that RSS symbol I was wondering what is all that source code for when I click on it, but now I got a new algorithm free newsletter feed. Thank you very much for that Information very useful

[@eded9157]

I never stop using it, till this day its the best way to get news and updates.

[@JasonEvangelho]

THANK YOU for spreading awareness about RSS! The best way to get content has always been to have it delivered to you.

[@purplegill10]

I remember I wanted to find a way to make folders of the channels I subscribe to in KZbin and feel really dumb for never considering RSS as a way to do that. Now I can just group them by genre or, in specifically the case I wanted, have an easy way to list out the 15 minute video essay channels so I can just click and watch when on a lunch break. Massive thanks for this.

[@iamsantanubanerjee]

What's funny is you could actually do that earlier on KZbin, until they took that feature down LoL

[@purplegill10]

@@iamsantanubanerjee _of course_

[@anjuthanm]

Am I the only one who started using RSS only after 2020? I use it to get local news, updates on programming related stuff and Linux news, authors blogs etc. Social media is cluttered.

[@jameskassal4777]

I’ve been using RSS for 6 months now, and it’s become my new favorite way to stay informed. RSS is still highly supported, and while some websites are moving away from allowing easy RSS access (Twitter and eBay being major pain points for me rn), it’s still widely available and lets me control my data, not some closed source algorithm. Thank you for bringing attention to this, I really hope we can see an RSS Renaissance in the near-future!

[@FlightingVagner]

Totally agree! I also want to admit that RSS reader uses significantly less battery and less traffic on mobile device than social media applications.

[@BaddBadger]

This is a super valid point that needs pointing out more.

[@karibui494]

My biggest drawback for RSS is your selling point_ I have to manually add my sources, so it doesn't allow me to organically discover new sources or types of content that might enjoy but don't know of. I have been using RSS as a source for news and content for about 15 years and each passing year I have less and less sources on it: some sources stopped providing RSS feeds, others are now closed and many more I unsubscribed because my taste or the feed direction has changed too much. But without a way in the feed reader to discover new content I am left with a couple of webcomics and literally 3 sources for news (that I barely read). I had 100s of sources 15 years ago and it was precisely because I used googleReader which allowed me to use my RSS feed a social media, sharing news, articles, recipes and many more things, with my friends and colleagues from uni, I discovered new sources from them and they discovered new sources from me. I also discovered new hobbies thanks to socialmedia algorithms that I would have not discovered if I stuck to using RSS as my source of news. Curating my sources to only the things I want to see places me in an echo changer that prevents new and interesting ideas to come my way. My biggest gripe with youtube right now is that it shows me the same content over and over, rarely deviating from what I already follow or watch, while tiktok shows me new things almost every day.

[@jameskassal4777]

I’ve found similar problems, and my solution has been to collect what I enjoy from social medias/news sources and shove them in my RSS feeder. Find an interesting 3D printing channel? In the box you go. A new alt news site? Get in there. Pretty art? You know the drill! RSS may not have algos to recommend content, but I can use it to curate the content recommended to me

[@wumwum42]

The one thing making most apps unusable for me is the missing explore public feeds functionality. There was like 1 mobile app that had, it, but it forgot its name.

[@robertbaptista6618]

Wow, been using rss soooo long and had no idea the readers would work with KZbin channels. Finally I can actually see all my subscription videos in one usable place. Now just need to get the reader to automate when I subscribe/unsubscribe on KZbin.

[@soratoyuki]

I've been using RSS readers (RIP Google Reader) for 15 years now, and it's just the way I choose to interact with the internet. Having gotten used to it, it's hard for me to imagine how other people don't use them.

[@esseferio]

Agreed! Started on a Handspring Visor with AvantGo in the very early 2000's, used Netvibes a lot in the mid 2000's until 2010ish. I have since forgotten a bit about this, but you're absolutely right, that's a terrific way to stay up to date without resorting to Google news or things like that.

[@thomasl.6817]

I don't remember if you mentioned these before, bur I have been trying to motivate myself to create one for a few months. This time I am riding the wave of motivation created by your video! Thanks

[@homerico]

I searched for RSS provider 4-5 years ago but couldn’t find anything. I even thought it might over as it’s very old. Happy to come across your video. I can start to use it again like I used to in 1999.

[@dsirius1500]

Great review, and thank you for the text explanation too. Keep posting dude, you make Linux lovable and useful for a lot of people.

[@lyoneel]

I love this specific topic, I would love to see more self-hosted recommendations in the future, I self host many of my services

[@primistandem6781]

I remember that back in the day I used newsbeuter (now called newsboat) and the feature I liked the most was called killfile. Basically, it allowed you to hide articles written by a specific author, if the title contained a certain word, etc. I remember I filtered out articles related to emacs or Stallman that way.

[@ialrakis5173]

Great video! Most likely it was another YT video that got me into RSS. For me it was a real eye opener because I really want me daily dose of news (no matter what it is). All my subscriptions are in Feedly (easy to access at work) and on my iPad I use Unread, with my Feedly account. The added value of Unread for me is the super clean and minimalistic interface.

[@prayagsuthar9856]

11:03 On Mac, NetNewsWire is basically _the_ RSS reader. It's free, there's no paywall, it's got a reputation since it's been around a long time and was formerly related to the equally-reputable MarsEdit blogging app, and I believe it may have won some  Design Awards!

[@jameskassal4777]

NNW is FANTASTIC. It’s been my go-to for the past few months and I cannot see myself changing. Open source, completely locally hosted, free in both senses of the term, and happily handles everything I’ve thrown at it.

[@sjcap4233]

Superb as usual my friend, Thank You.

[@deefdragon]

Quick note: You cant necessarily go all the way back in time. Feeds only go back the most recent N articles, and not all readers keep a historical log of all articles the feed has ever produced. It varies reader by reader.

[@egorandreevich7830]

yeah. Sadly thats why it did not fit me. If this technology had the ability to download old news as well, it wouldn't be dying right now. That's what I think.

[@Henry-sv3wv]

>That's what I think. The website owner thinks you should read his articles on his website to click ads. That's why he castrates RSS feed if he even offers it ... So its not the fault of RSS ...

[@EarlofRochester]

Shoutout to Newsboat. Reading the RSS in the terminal window makes me feel super tech-fancy

[@daniellow426]

I believe I just found my next project. Thank you.

[@kaciorx]

Great video. Setting it up on my nextcloud!

[@mehdismaeili3743]

Excellent, I was convinced by your first video that I should follow and subscribe to your channel.

[@wolfwoof2000]

I never knew about it, and just started using that for finding a job. Much more efficient than looking on broad websites, if you want to find a specific job. No offers you don't want, helps me a lot right now !

[@905jay]

I have never used RSS feeds before, but after setting this up for my favorite (Canadian) news sources, and youtube content creators and such, I am never going back. Excellent video that was very relevant to me personally - Thank you

[@vxllvxn]

Time to set up my feed. Thank u for the content

[@_karla._]

i have used feedbin for news and youtube for some time now and it's honestly amazing.

[@aannddrroommaann]

Google killing the Google reader was the worst thing ever.

[@RedRatFPV]

Could you please provide a list of feeds you have subscribed to? Many of them are looking really interesting! Thank you for this awesome video :)

[@JamesLeeon]

Surprised Inoreader wasn't mentioned. It's not as easy to use as Feedly, but it's probably the best feed aggregator out there, and it also has the most value for the free plan (oh, and it's as close to Google Reader UX as one can get IMO)

[@stephencoakley]

Love Inoreader, lots of power user features and a great mobile app too. Their built-in ability to generate feeds based on web scraping is also pretty decent now and very nice to have.

[@samuelitooooo]

I currently use Feedly. I'll give Inoreader a try (80% because there's a free plan 😜), thanks!

[@realdaybreaker8013]

Feedly appears to be a better alternative to Inoreader for free plans. The sorting feature by time is not inbuilt in Inoreader.

[@stephencoakley]

@@realdaybreaker8013 Back when I was a poor college student I did use Feedly, and they do offer more for free users than Inoreader. But I've been a paying Inoreader customer for several years now and quite happy with it.

[@maphouse]

inoreader maxes out at 100 feeds.. not great tbh

[@FengLengshun]

Yes, it is! Well, to a degree. I've used both Feedly and Inoreader, and it's pretty good if you check it every day. The problem is that there is no native way to catch up on what you missed or get a context on what's going on, and if the platform have it, then it's almost certainly part of premium. I cannot be arsed to sift through my RSS feeds after coming back from a vacation recently and all those thousands of news are just Mark as Read'd. Nevermind the fact that every day there are so many news I couldn't care for. Even in the context of FOSS news, Phoronix publishes dozens of news every day, and most of them have titles that takes some time to process if it's relevant to me, and I often just give up and Mark as Read their fits. But assuming you're fine with that, fine with paying, or have some other ways to catch up (like mail subscriptions which often summarizes what's important), yeah, it's great.

[@christianwillswissen]

Thank you for the video! It is exactly what i was looking for!

[@realyoutubekumar]

05:40 - A folder for phhh--olitical stuffs 😮😂

[@ryancottle1563]

Great content. Thank you.

[@paprocgaming5039]

From what I heard for Windows a good RSS reader is Fluent-Reader. For iOS I really like NetNewsWire - there's also a Mac version of it.

[@dacarpe1]

Theres is a tool in Calibre thatagregates RSS and send it, beatifully formated, to the Kindle, so you have a personalized digital newspaper every morning (or anytime).

[@vman103]

I watched Titus Tech's video on RSS and use his solutions: Fresh RSS and Full-Text RSS. The former took some setting up.

[@pacifi5t]

Thanks a lot! I tried setting up RSS before, but I didn't know about email and other tricks. Guess it's time to give it another try.

[@maurolimaok]

Thanks for the video. It will be very useful!

[@vicmac3513]

As always, this was a great quality video in a very informative form. In my opinion it didn't show the two features how to like RSS feeds even more. You mentioned the vim keys, but didn't actually show it. In general, there isn't enough keyboard controlled RSS readers anyway. Also watching KZbin from RSS is the most efficient way to enjoy KZbin content. The best app I've found for this purpose is the Newsboat. But the complete lack of GUI isn't for all.

[@als_pals]

What I want is an RSS Reader that has an "the algorithm" but it's controllable so you can say you want to not see duplicate stories but see the most talked about ones etc

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Indeed. I use RSS to curate my own news feed................ rather than 'other' operating systems that choose for you what news they want you to see ( yes that's a dig at Microsoft 🙂).

[@NFvidoJagg2]

I've been using the rss feature of Thunderbird for podcasts, and find it works pretty well

[@beoxsgaming9388]

Preface: I look for the free and/or open source options first before I search for monthly subscriptions (or "leasing" as I call it). If it costs me money, right now I can't afford it so I just ignore it. I haven't really found one I like on Windows or Mac. Newsify I use on mobile (iOS) but it's not great. I tried for desktop for a while but it got annoying with all the "upgrade" prompts. For Linux I like (Gnome?) Feeds. It's pretty simple and straightforward. I haven't delved too deep into all it can do, but I like the most out of all that I've tested and tried.

[@MineasTheKid]

Ive not used rss much and didnt really know much about it before now, very informative vid. One of the things that kept me on social media as opposed to rss was keeping up with certain creators who mainly reside on social media platforms such as artists and content creators. If RSS supports having feeds specially for users i wanna follow, id definitely be more inclined to use it.

[@gresh1134]

Love love love RSS! No idea you could use it for KZbin channels though, which just brings it to the next level for me!

[@katlamkatlam1994]

Thank you so much! A truly useful information i never mind of.

[@nicdm81]

Very helpfull! Thanks 🙂

[@Marc42]

Holy moly, why did I never add KZbinrs, podcasts, and other SocMed to my NewsBlur?! 😮 Thanks! 😎👍

[@DigitalProphet]

I think RSS *used to be* the best way to get news, but lately only a small fraction of websites give the whole article to the feed (because its a loss of potential revenue). Most just give it a small blurb and a link to the website, so you end up having to go to the website anyway, which means ads and inline videos and other crap (assuming you don't block them). Which means you can basically just create a bookmark folder of the news websites you visit (with subfolders to group sites) and get the same experience as an RSS reader. The golden age was when RSS was new, and you got the whole article text on your feed that you could format however you wanted.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Well, with RSS, it’s definitely better than just a bookmark folder: you get all the articles on only open the ones you want to read. If you go to the website, you have to parse it for new stuff everytime, which is far less efficient. Basically: use RSS to screen through the titles, and only open the ones you like!

[@sachinchaudhary1310]

well news rss provides full like web view

[@ray84851]

Thank you! It seems my FOMO level has reached a new height now.

[@johanngambolputty5351]

I've been using FreshRSS on the defacto docker pc in the house, but I've only been using to track releases for some more experimental github projects, a couple of odd blogs and phoronix. I want to add more topical/geopolitical news in there too, but the problem there is sources, ideally you have lots of sources, but even a single one will probably generate such a deluge, maybe that's fine, just skim read most headlines I guess. A video subscription category might be a good idea, I've been using freetube and newpipe, but maybe it would be simpler to add those there too.

[@twenty-fifth420]

I am working on a web app which I can publish my sci fi and fantady stories, and been struggling with trying to find a scalable way to spread news a out new releases across users. As a wise commenter said, I kinda forgot this exists. Honestly, this is my perfect use case, thanks! 🎉

[@kennethbeal]

Thank you!

[@jcbritobr]

Totally agreed. Got rwading rss feeds again. Much better and less stressing

[@fuckurethn6462]

I thought about replacing social media with RSS for a while but had doubts which you dispelled. Thanks a lot!

[@Roxor128]

It replaced the discontinued subscription emails from KZbin for me.

[@ryanlaseter7626]

Thansk for the video! Been trying out some news apps and they're a bit cluttery or unpredictable, gonna give RSS a try 👍

[@Mozaout]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@adrianstephens56]

I used quiteRSS for years. A recent move to opensuse leap forced me to find an alternative. Thunderbird acts as a basic and workable RSS reader, don't know why I didn't use it previously, but am now.

[@hikingpete]

I've been using newsboat for a year or two now. I'd been on thunderbird for years prior, but decided to move to something that runs in a terminal.

[@DrathVader]

For me the one of the coolest things about RSS is how snappy it is. I have a symmetric 400Mbps connection, 8-core CPU and 32GB, yet it feels like browsing any major social media I spend more time waiting for the content than actually looking at the content. RSS is pretty much instant.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@galtthedestroyer]

This was brilliant! Thank you so much! For quite a long time I've been wondering about how to aggregate all of my disparate sources of media. For longer than I can remember it was mainly Reddit and KZbin. Now I am leaving the Google ecosystem, and signing up for all of these new splinter media companies that have sprang up after all of this recent big text censorship. I can use an RSS reader as my aggregator. Anything I click on will open up its relative program or tab in a web browser.

[@capsey_]

I always knew about RSS and that it's better for everything news related, but I didn't use it because didn't knew it worked for such large amount of sources! I usually used KZbin bells for keeping tracks of uploads, but it's notoriously bad, so I will check out RSS for that. Thanks!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah, it’s definitely great for videos as well!

[@realdaybreaker8013]

Feedly seems like a better app for feeds

[@Alan.livingston]

Great topic.

[@shawnpeterson2523]

2 free and open source cloud options that DONT need to be self hosted are: 1. Freshrss and 2. Commafeed. I am not aware of mobile apps for them, but that is unnecessary because they have good mobile interfaces in the browser. They also have extensions for Firefox and the evil browser. I was not aware of kill the newsletter. Thanks, Nick!

[@gls5281]

Thanks!

[@LINUXBANDIT]

On Zorin OS Linux, I use NEWSBOAT to read rss feeds from terminal.

[@Roxor128]

Remember how KZbin used to send you an email when a channel you subscribed to uploaded a video? RSS is my replacement for that. Just put the channel's URL into your reader.

[@LordManhattan]

So we've reached the point where we have to explain the kids what RSS is. Are we that old?

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Apparently!

[@elodfejer9821]

I just watched your video and I'm surprised how cool RSS is. So first of all thank you 😃. I didn't know about RSS until I watched this video so I read after these web feed formats and I met with the Atom feed. Could you create a dedicated video about Atom feeds or a comparison between Atom feed and RSS feed? Thank you for your work. I have learned plenty of stuff from your videos! 😃

[@hornsteinhof7592]

Brilliant, i almost forgotnabout this

[@pablorey9203]

great vid. iwas thinking in rss for organization... now I am convinced!

[@imissnewwave]

Just stopping by to recommend Feedbin. The web UI is very nice and it's comptaible with a *lot* of 3rd party apps. Feedbin is open source and privacy focused as well. No involvement with them at all, just a happy user.

[@prayagsuthar9856]

0:10 is _exactly_ my reaction when I heard those stats! The whole idea of getting _news_ from social media, of all things, sounds downright absurd; in particular the idea of _Gen Zers_ getting news from TikTok, because _I'm_ a Gen Zer and I find that ludicrous!

[@jp6846]

wow! i’ve always seen the RSS buttons on sites but had no idea what it did. this will definitely change the game for me. thank you!

[@ericivanov128]

Never used "social media" (unless you count Usenet in the 90's as social media), always used RSS for years. Though not 100% of media websites provide an RSS feed. Currently, I am using the Feedbro extension with Firefox at the library and MS Edge on my personal laptop, and Aggregator on my Android phone. There is a RSS/bittorrent client in my TV set top box, I use it for one particular radio podcast. Plus, there is a download link for the episodes I care to keep a copy of. Too bad the Firefox built-in RSS reader is gone, I liked the drop-down menu style.

[@techbytes102]

5:40 nice one!

[@endless_puns]

I've been using RSS for years, mostly through Feedly and TheOldReader, both work very well for synchronizing across devices and have some extra paid features which I never thought made sense paying for. It's really nice to be in control of your feed and it's equally as nice to know that it's not a bottomless pit where you can end up scrolling forever and ever... for me, social media use is nowadays relegated to messaging and the occasional story.