Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.
  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    RSS is one of the things I have been using for ages. I setup all my favorite news sources and just browse it instead of going to any one website in particular. It works great and makes it so much easier.

  • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I remember when everyone was killing RSS, hell Firefox even removed their built-in one, now people are waking up.

  • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I use feeder in my phone the last 5 years. I shouldn’t have dropped my personalised RSS feed 8 years ago.

  • psyc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I started using NetNewsWire on iOS and it works great. Developer has been updating it constantly with all sorts of improvements and moving away from algorithms to my own personal list of RSS feeds has been a breath of fresh air

    • flameleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      I use RSS to aggregate my aggregators because I don’t like my reading and commenting to be tied to a single platform

    • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Fediverse integration into feed readers seems like next step for them. Not just a link to share an article, but integrated discussion using your preferred Lemmy or Mastodon or whatever server. It would have to discover threads since you are getting the actual link from RSS.