Benefits of RSS? Where should I look for trustworthy feeds?
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I know this is kinda tangential, but what apps do you guys use to read RSS feeds?
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Feedly isn't bad.
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Ooh I'd be interested in that too. Then again, never a bad time to start some comic series.
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That's a good point. I forgot about that part.
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qBitTorrent
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NetNewsWire is open-source, IIRC.
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I'd add that Social Media kind of took over this role for most regular users, but that having your own RSS feed gives you control of what you follow, instead of ceceeding control to the algorithms most social media uses to put whatever it is they want to put in front of you. So in that aspect, I do think there are also some privacy advantages in not having a central algorithm studying up what news stories and links work for you and how they can manipulate you.
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I'd add that Social Media kind of took over this role for most regular users
I agree, and that fact scares me tbh. But that's more of a privacy concern with social media and less an adventage of RSS. Some RSS feeds do require you to click through for the full article, having another opportunity for tracking.
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Yeah, but this has been 15 years in the making... So many people say that they 'don't use Facebook, it's just where I get my news...'. Which is how we got into this mess in the first place.
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I'm not judging anyone for not knowing the risks of algorithmic news, and I get how we got there. Journalism as a whole changed by it, so many news articles are engagement bait now. It's becoming so hard to find uplifting news, that's why I liked reddit and now lemmy too. People make a genuine effort to find uplifting news.
Diversification has always been the answer, proven by a second uprising of RSS.
