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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Assuming you read RSS offline on mobile, Feeder has an option to fetch full articles and stores them for offline reading. It's FOSS and actively-maintained, having received an update just last week.

I've never encountered a site I wanted to follow that didn't have RSS, but I wholly agree it's often needlessly complicated to find the feed links.

[–] RememberTheApollo 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the rec, but unfortunately I’m on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Ah, my bad! I should have guessed by your username, which I assume is in reference to the now-defunct reddit app.

I can't personally vouch for it, but NetNewsWire might be a good option for iOS if you haven't tried it. It's also FOSS, updated as recently as June 2023, can read RSS feeds locally and has a reader view to fetch full articles. You'd have to test if it caches fetched articles though, but I don't see why it shouldn't.

[–] RememberTheApollo 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot.

(Yep, it’s the former Reddit app)

Edit: it is offline, but it only pulls in the first paragraph or whatever. You can read a snippet, but it’s not really an offline reader that pulls in the full article to be read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just wanted to say that I like your username :)

[–] RememberTheApollo 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks! A kindred soul!

[–] fox2263 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you! Awesome app

[–] panicnow 2 points 10 months ago

I will vouch for it. I use it on my iPad constantly and have few complaints. I don’t think it syncs well between iPad and Mac or Phone when using iCloud sync, but I think they have other methods and I don’t really need sync since I do my media consumption on the iPad.