I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?
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.
I like that idea! Any chance you would be able to share the script or the general workflow?
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.
I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:
- Blogs
- News-Sites
- Piped (YouTube) channels
- GitHub releases
+1 for FreshRSS. It’s excellent and has been very easy to host for years.
FreshRSS here, too. Tech, State and local news all nicely sorted where I can firehose it or just see small sections.
I use this lightweight reader by the same dev who makes Bookstack. Just for new though. I use Audiobookshelf for podcasts.
What news do you add to it?
Nothing special, just WaPo, NPR, NYT, etc. I just prefer aggregating all those sites instead of going to them individually when I some that kind of news.
Thanks for explaining!
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
I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.
Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.
I’ve never thought of using it for video subscriptions. Great idea to have everything all in once place.
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.
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.
Since I can’t stand twitter, and since so many of my local groups use twitter, I use FreshRSS (self-hosted) to list new posts via Nitter’s RSS feature.
I also use RSS for Lemmy content and a few Reddit communities I still follow (until they show up on Lemmy) via old.reddit.com.
And some updates from YouTube channels or software release notes.
Really, my goal is to consolidate things, so I’m not checking 10 different sources every day.
I use it for recipes! I use the iOS app Mela for recipe storage and it has a built-in RSS feed system to follow recipe blogs so you can easily add new recipes to your collection without having to visit all the sites separately.
I use RSS through Readwise Reader though I’ve used Newsblur in the past. I really wish Newsblur was redesign to get a more modern interface…
My use is not foss because I didn’t find something that fits my needs better than Inoreader. There is the android app which works fine and also a very nice web interface that I can use at work because without thumbnails it looks like a ‘boring’ list of stuff.
Never used Inoreader, but recently switched to Newsblur which is open source (app installable via F-Droid) and selfhostable. If you don’t want to self host they have a freemium model to use their hosted service, couldn’t tell you what free vs paid gets you but I haven’t bumped into any limits yet. You can also log in to their site to browse via web browser.
So far the app looks better than other open source readers I’ve tried and thumbnails generally load so the lists are a bit livelier.
For qbittorrent for sites I know I will want their stuff.
@privsecfoss Newsboat and feedly
