this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
854 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

61084 readers
4689 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
enu
technopagan
L4s
854
Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
207 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] vinniep 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Google Reader shutdown hit me hard also. They offered all of the features in a really great app and many of the competitors shut down in their wake, so when they exited the scene, it left a huge hole.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I jumped to Feedly and have been using that ever since. After they killed reader, I've been very hesitant of using any new Google product, expecting and seeing them all inevitably die.

[–] AtariDump 2 points 11 months ago

Seconded. Back when Feedly had a “pay one price” special for Google reader refugees.