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With the decline of twitter and reddit, it's time to take a look at RSS again if you haven't already. (voidfiles.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by tshannon@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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It's always good to be in control of your own content sources.

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[-] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 29 points 1 year ago

Two major problems:

1: very very few sites offer an rss feed anymore

2: the ones that do either only offer the headline and then just a link to the web story, or if they give a full feed, inject ads into them, where you don't have an adblocker to stop it

I spent the better part of a month trying to curate an awesome rss feed and in the end, it's still so actively hostile that it renders it's barely usable

Don't get me wrong. I want rss to come back and be as usable as it was years ago. But it's a shadow of what it used to be, and active hostile

[-] eri@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

2: the ones that do either only offer the headline and then just a link to the web story, or if they give a full feed, inject ads into them, where you don’t have an adblocker to stop it

Thunderbird mostly solves this since it has a built-in browser and uBlock.

Agreed on 1) the lack of RSS feeds. Lemmy also has a problem that RSS feeds aren't federated, so commenting on new posts is very clunky.

[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

You can however subscribe to your home feed in Lemmy, just like on Reddit, in which case it takes you to the post on your instance. That's the main function I lack in kbin.