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

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

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    8·
    9 months ago

    I dunno what you guys are on. RSS is crap. If the outlet actually offers it at all, all you get is a title and a thumbnail most of the time.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      8·
      9 months ago

      Lemmy communities are glorified RSS feeds, you can even subscribe to them through RSS and not care whether your instance is down for maintenance to read the posts.

        • jarfil@beehaw.org
          10·
          9 months ago

          What I’ve said already: once the RSS client gets the feed, it’s on your device. Meaning you can access the items off-line, filter and sort by whatever criteria you wish (and your client allows), delete them, mark to read later, etc.

          • helenslunch@feddit.nl
            2·
            9 months ago

            I’d much rather just use Voyager. If one server is down I just switch to another or…just wait.

        • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.deEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          Catered feeds, for example.

          You can create a feed that only includes Lemmy communities dedicated to a specific topic - like only those related to video games in some broad sense. Or a news-only feed.

          It’s much more convenient that just subscribing to everything you’re interested in and then trying to filter out on our own (good luck not forgetting stuff), as you’re basically on the algorithm’s mercy as well.

            • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.deEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              Lemmy, too, has algorithms that determine what you see - how many upvotes a post has, how many comments, how recent, etc. The communities you subscribe to may have some high-quality, niche posts that you’re very likely to miss because they’re overshadowed by bigger, more active communities where posts simply gain more traction - RSS lets you circumvent that.

              • helenslunch@feddit.nl
                2·
                9 months ago

                Sure, I might miss something. But if I wanted to manually curate my feed I wouldn’t be here.

                I could use RSS and miss high-quality posts too. Much more likely, actually.

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I get a push notification when there’s a post in a specific community

        • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          The site configures what shows up in the RSS or ATOM feed. It’s not a feature or a flaw in RSS or ATOM inherently.

          In other words, complain to whomever runs the site in question.

          • helenslunch@feddit.nl
            3·
            9 months ago

            Once again, I ask “why does it matter?”. You can blame whoever you want, but the end result is the same.

            I didn’t mean RSS as a concept sucks, I mean the modern implementation and user experience of RSS sucks, because companies DONT WANT YOU to be able access things this way.