You should be using an RSS reader.

I’m more interested in good RSS feeds than RSS readers. Of courseI’ve got all my news in there, but I’m looking to add interesting feeds but don’t know where to look.

What are you interested in? I might suggest you some.

Thanks! I’m into psychology, technology, history and analytics of current affairs (background of conflicts or consequences for the rest of the world). I would love to hear your tips, if you’ve got some good recommendations.

I get a lot of mileage out of The Conversation’s feeds (https://theconversation.com/) – interesting academic-ish essays, written for a lay audience

Holy shit, I just drafted a long list as a comment on you and forget to click post.

😓, damn you Jerboa for Lemmy.

I might post the list again later.

Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.

Arts and letters daily is great. Overlaps a bit with your interests, though not every day.

Aldaily.com

Commenting to come back later for recos

For websites that don’t have an RSS feed, check out RSS-bridge! https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

It generates web feeds for websites that don’t have one.

A no-install, no-config option I built for this purpose: https://rss.diffbot.com

Interesting, ill try this

The problem is finding a good local, desktop based RSS reader other than thunderbird or a damn server app, especially if you’re on Windows.

Btw, what is a non-local RSS reader? I have come across multiple that RSS readers that advertise being “self-hosted” and I’m confused about that since in my mind RSS readers are simply clients that periodically query different servers for an .rss file, so I’m confused about where there is anything to host besides the host of the .rss feed.

The idea is to imitate the experience of something like Feedly, an RSS feed you can access from anywhere on any device, recommendations, all that… Which is overkill if all you want is just a simple program that queries for new posts every x hours.

It’s just a web based client instead of a desktop one. And it can usually output its own RSS feed that contains your other feeds so you can hook any RSS desktop client on any device to it.

It makes more sense to have a server downloading and consolidating the data from the various sources, rather than syncing and downloading from dozens or hundreds of sources to build the feed in real time.

It’s technically possible to do it all client side, but it would put more load on the RSS sources, and be a much slower user experience.

What’s wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don’t use Outlook by choice?

UI is too bloated, slow, resource hungry and I’ve had problems with displaying some feed content in the past.

Outlook

God forbid.

That’s surprising. I found it be underpowered as an RSS reader, personally. Although I am really only using it for news - I know some people who use it for videos, etc.

I had been using Fluent Reader for months, suddenly the program wouldn’t load up at all upon start. No visible GUI. Didn’t back up my subscriptions so now I lost all my RSS links with it. :-/ Hopefully there’s an update soon, or someone has a trick to retrieve my subscriptions, at least.

Feedly, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, yarr, etc.

Thunderbird is fine, but I don’t really want to interact with my feed how I interact with email.

I’m out of the loop since I’ve been using a self hosted Miniflux, but Raven certainly is an alternative.

It’s also been archived for a year with no revamp in sight.

Reeder on iOS and Mac is excellent. Not open source, but lovingly crafted by an indie dev.

I find the Feedbro plugin for Firefox quite handy.

It’s what I’ve been using recently, but I really dislike how it’s a browser extension, that and how it can’t really handle audio files from my experience.

I’ve used Feedly for years and it makes keeping with various types of news so much easier.

Me too. I went Google reader to feedly and have been there since

I recently switched to a self hosted FreshRSS. I used Feedly for probably a decade tho.

I’d love that it had the feature that Feeder has to fetch incomplete RSS articles and put them in a nice view… Only because of that I have used Feeder more as of lately (still Feedly is my main RSS source).

Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you’ve read in it.

What is this shitty email program they’re talking about? Sure, they can embed a 1-pixel tracking image to see when you opened the email (if you allow auto-loading images), but how would they know how much you’ve read unless some incredibly horrible email program actively sends out that data?

Most made by large corps. For example, Apple got in some hot water not too long ago for changing the way they track in Apple Mail.

Servers track sent, delivered, bounced, and blocked.
Clients phone home with opened, read, CTR, and junk status.

Just… wow. I don’t even enable notifications that I’ve opened an email.

Yeah I’ve never heard of that either, and I’ve used email marketing platforms. They have a lot of analytics, but nothing anywhere near that level. (Granted, this was also back in like 2010.)

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