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

  • apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    2 years 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
        3·
        2 years 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.

  • slaecker@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:

    • Blogs
    • News-Sites
    • Piped (YouTube) channels
    • GitHub releases
  • McSinyx@slrpnk.net
    4·
    2 years ago

    I subscribe to:

    • Blogs I find interesting
    • Blogs of personal friends
    • Projects’ blogs and announcements
    • Changes to codebase I need to closely monitor (e.g. things I host)
    • Videos, mostly on YouTube, but also my PeerTube feed
    • Web comics
  • JackbyDev
    3·
    2 years 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.

    • privsecfoss@feddit.dkOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Instead of going to blogs, YouTube, podcast etc. you subscribe to them and feetch news from them via RSS in a web or local client. IMHO the way things should work 🙂

  • sibloure@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

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

  • fitgse@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 years 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
    2·
    2 years 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.

  • BigTechBlows@lemmy.one
    2·
    2 years 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.

  • flatbield@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    Yes. I use it on my phone. I use AntennaPod for pod casts, and Flym for textual news feeds. Antenna pod in particular is really nice. I finding having this sort of content on a mobile device best.

  • Nick B.@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    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).