RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume “content.” (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It’s now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what’s new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don’t want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here’s a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

  • OhmsLawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    As someone who has only dipped his toe into this tech, and into podcasts, for that matter, what’s the best android app to use for this?

    I don’t really want to use Spotify, etc. Is there a preferred independent and/or FOSS that people like?

    • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Feeder for RSS and AntennaPod or EscapePod for podcast. All three can be retrieved from F-Droid. EscapePod is much simpler than AntennaPod but also lacks a lot of its features on purpose

      • OhmsLawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Thank you. This is exactly the response I’m looking for.

        Now I have to decide what the heck I’m interested in following…

    • thegreekgeek@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I have an instance of freshrss feeding into feedme and it’s awesome. I went with feedme because it’s got a built in mobilizer that you can customize if the feed doesn’t have the whole article content.