What sort of things do people use RSS readers for these days?
I use it to follow news updates, blogs, updates of apps that I like, some youtube channels and lemmy/reddit communities.
I’m new to using rss feeds, but it seems to reduce the time to open pages on the browser to check for updates.
For example:
Feed with post titles and content from c/ Word of the Day:
https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/wotd.xml?
Lemmy has built-in rss feeds.
I also use the FdroidUpdate subreddit to follow updates. Is there a direct rss feed to follow?
Notifies me of updates for Jerboa:
https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/releases.atom
The same for PipePipe:
https://codeberg.org/NullPointerException/PipePipe/releases.rss
PipePipe displays rss feed urls of yt channels. So I follow some local yt channels.
https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/ - Helps to get rss feeds for services/websites that don’t have an rss feed of their own
News websites like The Guardian and The Hindu(Indian newspaper, not a religious one tho) seem to have rss feeds for specific topics and main pages.
That depends on your use case, I personally really only ever use RSS on my phone. Anyway, as others have mentioned, you can connect the app to FreshRSS for syncing.
Also, feel free to ignore this, but you could probably make your point without being so condescending. Something like “Cool, but the lack of apps across multiple platforms is a deal-breaker for me.” Calling someone’s work “cute, but […] useless” after they provide it for free to the community is kinda rude, especially considering it’s honestly one of the best actively-developped RSS apps for Android.
I absolutely love the You apps. That’s what vanilla custom ROM devs need: simple FOSS good looking apps. Fossify is great but alternatives are welcome
I just wish it had a better name. Anything You just makes my brain feel like it hiccup’d trying to reread the sentence parsing it a second time as a name.
Though it looks like the RSS app isn’t a part of the pack. It’s either unofficial or just a name coincidence
Tried using it. Terrible UX. Lots of small annoying things that make the app usage very uncomfortable.
I just switched some weeks ago from Flym. Flym was my alltime favourite RSS reader, but it is not developed anymore. Read You comes closest to Flym’s minimal design and slowly I am getting used to it.
