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Never stopped. Now I also host a service that can convert some sites to an RSS feed when they don't have one.

i use it to read news - love rss.

i started isng it again. its a great way to keep up with news rather than what the algorithm tells you you should see. i highly suggest to follow your local councils news feed too

What RSS readers do people like? I used to love Google Reader!

I use RSS for webcomics, eager to hear some other uses

https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder auto tags articeles as read as i pass on the feed. can predownload crap in the back. ui is minimal, but waaay better in functions compared to the rest i found on fdroid.

Yup. I've been using RSS for ages and have almost given up all social media now to move to RSS. I want very detailed control of my feeds and especially want to be able to block key words (I want to block all USA-centric news, gossip, sports news, etc).

Pluma app (Android) was best for a phone based solution.

I've been moving to more FOSS options. Now I use Read You (f-droid) and sync this with my home server Tiny Tiny RSS deployment for sync. TTRSS does a great job of blocking things before pushing feeds to my phone.

It has been great to see more professional content. Social media feeds have always been trash and are now increasingly trash+slop. User comments are also just a toxic cesspool mostly and I don't want that. I would recommend RSS to everyone. Take control. Reject the algorithms. It is way better than even going to news sites. News sites serve stories on their front page according to their own algorithms. RSS sends you news stories chronologically. It has really improved my relationship with news. RSS is also the best way to follow webcomics.

Ya never stopped using it. Trimmed some feeds as publications come and go. Miss the golden days but holy cow it’s still good.

Pretty much every Fediverse project I've seen uses RSS. Want to follow someone on Mastodon without and account? RSS. It's built in. Follow a person, hashtag, etc.

Gancio, federated calendar app, you can use RSS.

Peertube, follow a channel via RSS.

I use the Matrix RSS bot in a news channel to follow bunch of tech stuff.

RSS is the way. :-)

Yup! Never stopped. I happily moved all my feeds from newsblur to a self-hosted aggregator a few months ago (using Tiny Tiny RSS atm after a couple months on Tuvix). I follow tech news, comics, general news, FOSS project releases.

I use RSS Guard on my PC (works on Mac, Linux and Windows). Comes with powerful regex filtering, so I can really curate my feeds.

RSS seems kinda oldschool, but it's still the best way I've found of keeping track of the things I care about. No fuss or social media bullshit, just information.

have been since ....a long time. Google Reader then they shit canned it and still on Feedly because of multi device support.

i would love a FOSS RSS reader with nextcloud multidevice support, like Joplin has for notes,if anyone has a suggestion

Mastodon etal all have RSS feeds fyi

I use it for news link aggregation in Feedly and for pulling podcasts into Podcast Addict

I converted lots of my newsletters to rss with kill-the-newsletter.com . When i am in the mood i check the categories (art, shopping..) in my rss-reader for discounts or updates. I also added ebay-sales of prints from my favourite artists with rssbay-net .

I mostly use it to monitor individual feeds for chatty, talkradio-esque mp3 files that I then download and play from my personal devices. I've taken to calling them "podcasts" ;)

I used to use it as a mailing thread I would write a blog in short sentences and the system of updated notifications was a lot more easier and I was able to format a page with some info and text as it wasn’t secure yet but when I had made its availability to reach people for certain amount of time it became a way to make friends with our social media and would receive emails building a contact list. I had liked apples original rss feed when they had it attached to email and opened a server on a MacBook but it was experimental. Now you have to pay for stuff like that since this site had came out I had really liked how it’s categorized and organized in text but could use a better notification system like availability to reach servers that ping online which I think they used to have a p2p server like that for Apple as well

Yeah, use them for Feedly or whatever the FOSS app is for news.

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I use commafeed it's open source and free and super useful. I have news sites I follow but I also added food blogs I like to save the sites. In this AI world now, I have started to self cultivate my feeds. I would admit I'm addicted to the scroll but since deleting reddit and twitter, and never on Instagram, the rss feed is useful to stay updated on stuff and get my scrolling fix still

Yep, I prefer it for my news feed.

I use FeedFlow for a local beekeeping guy's blog - he posts by email, so having an RSS feed means I don't have to go ratching through looking for a particular article, I can just scroll.

https://www.feedflow.dev/

Yep. Feedly since like 2010

Curious to see if any of you use RSS and if so how do you use it?

I do use it. I think I use it like I always did: as a way to 'aggregate' multiple sources into a single rss reader which is Newsboat, in my case, a cli RSS reader (I do all my online activities on a computer, not on the phone).

I will often not bother reading a blog that doesn't give me an RSS feed

Yes. I've had a bare metal setup of tiny tiny RSS setup for ages. I think it changed maintainer at some point, but still gets updates. The thing's been purring along all this time.

And a lot of modern websites still have an RSS feed. Not all, unfortunately, but it keeps up.

No. Why would I bother. It is obsolete. Maybe I will also crank start my car.

I mainly use it for my country's national broadcasting site's news. It's basically the only source I get news from.