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For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: https://www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/
For feed readers, I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.
This is also a great way to follow newsletters without your email inbox getting jammed up. I mostly subscribe to newsletters, turn the emails off, and then read them in my feed reader.
Most newsletters provide an RSS feed, or there are some RSS readers that will let you send emails to a special email address so they show up in your feed.
@molly0xfff I wish I understood this. My gmail keeps filling up. I don't even know what an RSS feed is. Do you have to download an app?
@WINGS_radio there are RSS apps, or you can also use a web-based one. here's a good guide: https://derekkedziora.com/blog/rss-guide
@molly0xfff @WINGS_radio
Thanks for the guide. Very useful. I was looking for a friendly way to understand RSS
@molly0xfff @WINGS_radio Thank you! I've also been looking for something like this, and hopefully it'll help clear up my email clutter.
@WINGS_radio @molly0xfff
This article from a year ago explains it simply. On Android I use Feeder.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/08/08/Use-Really-Simple-Syndication/
@molly0xfff Cory Doctorow got me fired up about RSS not too long ago. It does make a lot of sense and it certainly ticks all the boxes in terms of media independence.
@molly0xfff Any tips for RSS readers that can do that?
@almad inoreader does it, but it’s a paid feature. there are also free services like https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
@molly0xfff Thanks! I was a happy Omnivore user and looking where to escape to now…
@almad @molly0xfff I've seen some recommendations from @hynek to Omnivore refugees:
@almad @molly0xfff newsblur provides and email address to forward newsletters to, then provides them like an rss feed. I'm a pretty happy with newsblur in general.
@mostlywater @almad @molly0xfff I’m also a happy NewsBlur user.
@swacknificent @mostlywater @molly0xfff Out of curiositt: my problem is that I do _not_ want to have RSS as a reader; I am using it to triage what I want to read, and send it to my “read it later” app, because I want a single longread source and I am adding a bunch of things (like papers) manually…and last time I checked, Newsblur did not integrate well, and there wasn’t a good way to add ad hoc reads.
Has either of those been fixed?
@almad @mostlywater @molly0xfff unfortunately I can’t speak to that - I use NewsBlur independently from other software and don’t try to add items manually that aren’t in my feeds. I’m curious what you use for your “to-read” tool and if you like it.
@swacknificent @mostlywater @molly0xfff Well, it was Omnivore and now I don’t know 
It was Pocket before that but it’s deteriorating.
@almad @mostlywater @molly0xfff hmm, hope you find something non-shambolic that meets your needs.
@swacknificent @mostlywater @molly0xfff Installing Wallabag was okey, but storing from mobile seems clunky, as well as the omnivore plugin.
I may give up and go for https://readwise.io/read :-/
most Mastodon and Reddit pages can be turn into feeds by just adding `.rss` to the end of the url, for Lemmy add `.xml` instead
@molly0xfff
*** Reminder ***
almost all Mastodon servers allow by default for someone to follow all your feed by simply entering a URL into your RSS feeder in the form https://<servername>/<username>.RSS
There are only a few Hometown servers which give you an option to shut off the RSS feed.
Try https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff.rss in your reader to see what I mean.
"has anyone tried saying UUNET three times? - Beetlejuice
@molly0xfff And if your reader doesn't support the email feature, there's also Kill The Newsletter which lets you convert email newsletters into an RSS feed. Super handy :)
https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
(It's also open source, which I like :)
@molly0xfff I also really appreciate how RSS readers provide a consistent and simple way to check headlines, especially for sites that have terrible navigation (such as no TOC). And it also can act as somewhat of an ad-blocker. Some sites share all their content via RSS allowing me to avoid all their ads, but even if it's just headlines, I can at least scan those to see if an article might warrant getting bombarded with ads.