I’ve gotten to a point in my privacy journey where it’s less about moving towards private options, and more about relaxing and having some fun with what I can do.
I put off messing around with RSS for a while. I simply didn’t have a significant need for it. However, after finding no good options to monitor various Lemmy communities without logging in, I decided to try out an RSS reader.
I settled on Feeder as my RSS reader, despite a few missing features I would like. I added my first Lemmy community as a feed, to try it out. I was immediately surprised how well it worked.
I also added other feeds, such as Tails News, and I was happy with that. I could monitor all the communities I needed to.
Then, I noticed one day, there was an RSS button for my Lemmy inbox. This is where I was really pleased: I can view my notifications without the need to log in, all in the same place.
Lemmy and RSS are both incredible, and I truly believe RSS is the hidden backbone of the internet. I love it, and maybe you should give it a try too!
(Ahem P.S. if anyone has an RSS reader as good as Feeder for Android that fixes this issue, please let me know)
RIP Aaron Swartz. You are truely missed…
…Is it just me or does the shooter have the same smile? I’ve heard he’s really smart.
RSS is great and Google tried to kill it so you’d have to use other services.
I like how I can tell a big event has happened because I see a bunch of articles on it, and that it’s possible to catch up to where you last were in the feed.
That means you’ve caught up on the news, no need to red any more, you can do something else. Algorithms always serve you up new content, so you’re in this constant state of thinking something is always happening.
I think RSS readers would help fix the brains of a lot of boomers if we could ever get them off Facebook
I personally hate newsletters because
- my email inbox is already cluttered enough as it is
- I need to share my email to subscribe, which puts the balance of power into the hands of the sender at the expense of my privacy
I’d rather have newsletters made available through RSS feeds, where I can subscribe and unsubscribe anonymously.
You can turn newsletters into RSS feeds anonymously through Kill the Newsletter.
I’ve been using it for over a year and it works flawlessly. Highly recommend!
Maybe a dumb thought but I just realised if Lemmy does RSS maybe I could add Lemmy feeds to my Friendica account. ??
I got this post by rss so YES,
But do not friendica allow you to join community by Activity pub? (Benefit is you can reply directly from there)
@abeorch
@checksout @opensource
This is cool . thanks for the tip. I now have my #lemmy, #Mastodon and #Friendica feed almost in one with #Fedilab . I just need to sort out my #privacysettings (and remember to get off the #Madridmetro at #nuevosministerios
It’s cool.
I currently catch up on news with it.
Firefox has RSS radar extensions that can help find rss feeds in websites(that don’t really show/mention it on every page)
Really? Why’d Firefox remove such a useful feature?
Security concerns? Or no one maintaining it?
Mozilla claimed that it was rarely used
