Submitted 1 year ago by Boggy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I feel like I missed this part of internet school.
As mentioned, RSS is used by RSS readers to keep tabs on constantly updating content.
Typically this would be something like: today’s sports/business stories, every single weather watch issued by the National Weather Service, or the last 10 blog posts on Daring Fireball.
Like most XML-based formats from the early 2000’s, it’s complex, excessively verbose, and hard to read as a human (hello `
I’ll add the important bit, that it’s this icon:
If you see this icon, click it. If you have a program/app that can read the feed, it will open and you’ll see what it does.
Even Lemmy communities have their own RSS feeds, tho it’s limited to last 10 or 50? Idk, posts.
I can’t seem to read this icon in Jerboa. Not sure if it’s a Jerboa thing or Lemmy thing or what.
I can see it in liftoff and lemmy.world mobile site, so could be a Jerboa problem
I can see it using Connect.
I can see it on Jerboa from ttrpg.network, so I think it’s your connection, some ad/tracker blocking, or maybe your instance?
It stands for “Really Simple Syndication”, but you don’t need to know or care about that part.
The part that matters is that you get news from places you trust without the algorithm BS. RSS lets you subscribe to any website you want, and you see all of their new posts, in reverse chronological order, no algorithm. You can (if you have a good reader) filter out subjects you’re not interested in, and just see the stuff you care about.
I recommend trying out Feedly (feedly.com) with a few sites you already follow, and going from there.
It stands for Real Simple Syndicate. It’s just an XML file that allows people of other websites to propagate indo provided by another.
Since others answered already I’ll just add that if you’re on iOS or macOS I highly recommend netnewswire.com for an RSS reader. It’s a fantastic, free and open source app. It doesn’t require an account or third party server to use for your feeds.
Seconded! Amazing app. I noted in my own comment you might have to go somewhere else for discovery since there’s no in-app search, but as a reader it’s near perfect.
Others already explained what is is, I’ll just add that it used to be a popular way of getting news, articles etc. from many sources in one place/app before Facebook happen and everyone moved to subscribing “fanpages”.
Already answered in other comments. I just wanted to add a couple of related communities:
I feel like I missed this part of internet school.
Edit: thank you everyone!
I’ve been loving RSS for awhile now not only because it’s private but because it seems to be unpaywalled as well? Maybe someone can answer this, but how is it I can subscribe to the NYT RSS feed and can get completely free articles to my reader?
PS shoutout to NetNewsWire on iOS which is open source and the developer seems like a great guy. It’s not great for discovery as you have to paste in the web url manually, but if you already know what you want to read it’s a great RSS reader app.
Which NYT rss feed are you using? Mine seems to have paywalled articles + is it maybe the app you are using? It’s surprisingly easy to crawl the full text to display it
This is the feed xml I use for NYT Breaking News. I get the usually text preview but if I choose to expand the full article it’s always there. This is true on NetNewsWire and Inoreader which I previously used.
nydas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
An RSS feed is a publication that you can subscribe to without needing to give any personal information, such as your email address.
Website would publish their blog entries to an RSS feed so you didn’t need to keep going to their website, or give your email address to get it sent to you that way.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
yata@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
But how do you subscribe to it?
kaotic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
www.wired.com/story/best-rss-feed-readers/