Submitted 11 hours ago by plant@lemmy.stinky.rip to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hopefully this is a fit for this community (for getting value out of a self-hosted RSS aggregator/reader).
I’m looking for a list of high-value feeds to subscribe to or some alternative ideas to use RSS for in $current_year such as subscribing to a youtube channel without being logged in/directly using the frontend.
commit history of some software i use
Kind of obvious but: Podcasts
I love the classic “Subscribe to an RSS feed and get all of your podcasts downloaded automatically” mechanic. Using AntennaPod as feed catcher and podcast player. To me this is the absolute best way to listen to my regular podcasts.
The one non-obvious thing that I use RSS for is to monitor releases on GitHub, so that when I’m waiting for some project to release some bugfix it gets conveniently listed in my RSS reader.
I wish GitHub also supported rss feeds for issue and pull request discussions, it recently got added to Forgejo.
There is at least one workaround, if you don’t mind being a bit flexible.
GitHub lets users add multiple email addresses to their accounts and assign them as notification recipients. I’ve added a Kill-the-Newsletter (not affiliated) email to my account, and then use custom routing to route all emails for orgs I’m a part of to my email address - and everything else to Kill-the-Newsletter.
With this setup, all notifications related to orgs I specify come to my primary email address, anything else by default hits the RSS feed from Kill-the-Newsletter and keeps my inbox from getting slammed when a particular issue/etc. has a ton of activity.
I quickly wiped up a little tool to automate this on my RSS feed it could maybe be useful to you if you use docker 😘 github.com/P6g9YHK6/DockFeed
My best strategy has been to use Lemmy, and then if I liked a post shared here, I would check if that post came from a site with an RSS feed.
I’ve also been reading posts on bubbles.town and finding lots of fun niche little blogs to subscribe to. Bubbles has its own RSS feeds, too, sharing the highest-voted posts.
$current_year???
Joke or “AI” slop.
echo `date +%Y`: the year of the `uname -s` desktop
Im glad someone else noticed that
I figured it was a tech-y joke.
Lots of stuff, but here’s a neat one https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss - top ten hacker news for the day.
No thanks on fashernews. Gross site. Gross people.
to make toast.
Security alerts
Hard to keep up as AI finds all these serious bugs every week
I used to have it get a digest of reddit posts from my subscribed subreddits, so that I could still get the stuff not posted elsewhere, without actually going to reddit.
Same here, womp womp
PieFed makes a RSS feed like that, look for “Posts from joined communities” in the sidebar of the home page.
youtube channels, blogs, news, software releases, etc
i use freshrss. allows me to sub to websites that don’t have rss/atom by parsing html.
i use reeder classic on ios and easyrss on android
I use it for a lot of the same things folks have already said. Following news (Google News does RSS), some tech blogs, news releases for the things I’m invested in, some GitHub releases, the Lemmy communities I subscribe to (including this one), etc. I still kinda follow RSS feeds on Reddit, but that’s probably dead in a week. I’ve also used RSS-Bridge to build feeds for things that don’t automatically come with one, like some things on Lemmy that I wish did.
I mostly use it to digest news, webcomics, and free video games.
Metric f ton of comics.
Do you have a good source for mangas? My usual solution starts to fall apart a little and I was wondering if there’s somewhere I can monitor via RSS and then just torrent the results to my book server
Following github releases
RSS for in $current_year such as subscribing to a youtube channel without being logged in/directly using the frontend.
I use RSS to subscribe to my favorite channels on invidious. invidious.io
sub to the security list of any software you are hosting or care about.
eg my ${DAY_JOB} is drupal so i sub to www.drupal.org/security/all/rss.xml
Today‘s Top Tune from KCRW via gPodder
Google Reader —->. Feedly and stopped there. from a variety of news sites and blogs.
I glance at The War Zone occasionally (twz.com) to see if there’s anything interesting and worth posting here.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 minutes ago
Is that a joke or a bot?
Regardless I use RSS for this stuff and more: