I’m new to RSS and I’m trying to get into it. I don’t really check out news all too often, so mostly the other parts of RSS. Thanks.

    • Provoked Gamer@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      I meant like comics, and blogs and just interesting feeds that share interesting stuff like history or facts, etc.

    • keylogthis@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve never used RSS for news, blogs, or podcasts (although it’s likely my podcast application actually does this behind the scenes). Before switching to Sonarr and Jackett, I used RSS for torrents, which would get filtered and automatically downloaded for TV shows. And I’ve used it for entire and multiple regions on Craigslist for specific cars or motorcycles or other items with a notification email setup when that item pops up.

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        That was my reason for asking. I don’t know anything about RSS for torrenting. But usually people asking, I want something for ‘other purposes’… it means either pirating things or lewd stuff. 😉 But this isn’t the case here.

        Back in the day, I’ve used RSS and Atom feeds for my favorite 10 news sites and 20-30 blogs I was reading regularly. The way I got those feeds was: I’d go to my favorite websites and have a look in the top right of the page or at the bottom, and they’d link their feed somewhere. I think at some point firefox had a feature to show some kind of symbol in the location bar, when a site had a feed.

        But times have changed. Websites stopped having RSS feeds. RSS readers vanished. And no one writes proper blogs anymore. Maybe a trending story on medium.com Recently I’ve seen influencers advertise their newsletter… Which is a way more medieval thing in my eyes.

        I’ve stopped because I was reading too much news and articles and wasting too much time. But I’m still using it for podcasts and maybe I’m going to pick it up again. My consumption of media has changed anyways. Today, I waste my time on Lemmy. And read news here. But I have heard the word ‘RSS’ come up more often nowadays. Seems to be on the rise again. But I wouldn’t know how people use it as of today.