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I didn't know RSS was still around. I used to use it all the time back in the 2000s and early 2010s. I even had it set up to replace my youtube sub feed. But little by little everyone I was following that way stopped updating, and it seemed harder and harder to find sites that used it.
@@haplozetetic9519 Even Facebook supports it. My grocery store only posts their ads on their FB page, so I set up an RSS thing to email me the ads whenever they post.
I love using RSS. Wish more websites and blogs would offer this. Sometimes its a bit hidden and I have to try few things to get a feed, but often they don't provide any at all. My RSS reader is actually Thunderbird. :D
@@leonbishop7404 he is a young and smart guy who helped create both Reddit and RSS, but he also downloaded a lot of scientific papers that he wanted to publish and the FBI went after him hard and he committed unalive.
@@leonbishop7404 Guy who helped develop RSS, reddit, markdown, and the creative commons organization. He died sortly after the FBI charged him with the crime of distributing academic papers for free. He has a whole wiki page dedicated to him.
@@Tall_Order I use adgaurd and those are the only ones I get and I don't think I am using the 'annoyance flter'. I don't get youtube ads either(sorry, but I'm not sorry...I can't stand ads).
I too don't get ads or popups. He needs to look around and see that there is away around all of that. (Ublock Origin, Ghostery, Privacy Badger or just get a browser like Blaze, Firefox or Mullvad)
Me too. One day when I learned that my Thunderbird can also use RSS, it stroke me. Why do I need another feed reader? Now if only had Thunderbird a system tray icon, it would be perfect.
@@thingsiplay I am on Fedora 41 and I achieved the tray behavior I want by using Betterbird with the "When Betterbird is minimized move it to the tray" option. This setting it the only reason I am using Betterbird over Thunderbird right now. I also installed two extensions; "Minimize on Close" and "Minimize on startup" (since Betterbird is an autostart program for me). Of course for any of this to work on Gnome the extension "AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support" is required.
Good RSS is hard: It must excel as a native client for reading, filtering, organizing, archiving, have good themes, text resizing, accessibility, and syncing across multiple devices and platforms (iOS, Android, desktop). THEN it must also function as either a reliable, super advanced web scraper or an integrated browser that renders websites flawlessly.
I like that thunderbird has the option to open up the full webpage automatically, with ad blockers and dark reader stuff. but hey whatever works for you is the best choice
Hosting an rss aggregator makes sense if you have numerous devices with their own rss clients you wish to sync. If you only have a single device for reading rss, don't bother with services like freshrss and directly use a rss client on the device (I use newsboat).
You damn near need an IT degree to defend your web browser from the tsunami of loud, intrusive ads. I use Brave browser plus adguard DNS and I have a mostly tolerable browsing experience. Most users have never heard of Brave and don't know what DNS is. They aren't even aware that ads are blockable. Poor devils!
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I came to this same conclusion a couple years ago and setup a big collection of RSS feeds. I manage them on my android phone though, instead of on the desktop as I'd not found an RSS feeder that was still staying modern. I'll take a deeper look at FreshRSS
Hey Matt, have you done a video on password managers? I'd be curious to hear about your experience on that front. I just got a year sub to BitWarden and migrated to Firefox to de-Google and de-Microsoft where I can, but it is proving to be difficult because the tools available in that direction seem to be poorly implemented. To be fair Firefox password manager by itself seems pretty seamless so maybe I'll just work with that...
Very interesting App .. although Personally I use the Build in RSS Feed inside the Vivaldi Browser ... mainly that it's nice to have it also as a widget on the new tab page but I can understand that you would not use it since it's a bit wonky to control and it's not sorting itself so neatly .. fortunately I do not have that many feeds :D
RSS is the way. Many websites have dropped any sort of syndication/feed document, but that just means I'm much less likely to see their content. Additionally, RSS can be used as a lightweight solution to any number of things like message buses, queues, and notification.
Maybe. I'm unsure. I know there are some other ways to connect, but I've never tried them. I also seem to remember they lack some functionality, but I may be misremember that
I don't know how to feel about this. RSS is great if all you want to do is read news articles from the same websites. If you want to use the web for browsing, then it's terrible and useless. Personally I have no need for getting the latest and greatest in news synchronized to every device I own, I just want to go explore shit, and this kind of system centralizes the web even more than it already is. Now I'm not chronically online, so I won't be hungry for more and more and MORE every hour of the day. When I come home from work, I'll read news for a bit, but that's not what I do to help me relax. I'll play some games, and then I'll tumble down a couple rabbit holes on the web, scouring various websites for curious information. So for me, RSS would detract from my experience and make it even worse.
It's not terrible and useless. It's a destination. Sure you have to use the regular way of doing things to find stuff, but once it's found, plop it in your RSS reader and you get it delivered to your doorstep.
@@TheLinuxCast But that only really matters if that's what you want to do often. Otherwise, this becomes yet another app and yet another service with a very niche use case.
@@TheLinuxCast It's a lesser known web browser (based in Germany, I think), which, like Floorp (from Japan), seems to takes user-privacy very seriously. For other viewers of your fine channel, these two are well worth adding to their usual list of decent browsers (Librewolf, Firefox -- to a large extent, Brave, etc). Please keep up your great work👍!
@@TheLinuxCast ghostery is one of the first ad block security extensions I have used for many years. using it with Ublock origin it makes my browsing virtually ad free.
it's cool but the whole selfhosting and sync with other pcs and mobile aplications it's kina convoluted and not practical for most people compared to proprietary services
@Tall_Order yeah, it's confusing unless you're network savvy and so on. Opening the network to the internet whole keepingit secure from attacks is also a whole ordeal by itself
Dude two days ago i thought about this problem also and I installed Akregator :D RSS is good solution to stop treating our heads like garbage information collectors.
i love freshrss if u use casa os its super easy to set up i use freshrss on pc and then i use readyou on phone in which i use freshrss greader api and its super awesome to use
RSS is the Internet though, no? I think you mean the web sucks. For reading prose. The main downside of RSS for those of us that mainly read about code is that clients/readers don't handle syntax highlighting or other features that technical writing pages offer like code copy, etc.
@ You are right about the formatting. It's not just code either. RSS isn't really maintained, I don't think, so I doubt it gets better. Still very useful tho
@@TheLinuxCast Agreed about its usefulness! I've been using it for news since 2003, and I built many a feed back in the day. As long as we're being pedantic, however, RSS is not "almost as old as the Internet itself." It's only been around since '99, so not even as old as the Web itself. But I'm sure at your age that seems like the same.thing, so I was gonna let it pass until you pulled the gnu thing out haha.
FreshRSS, podcasts, and websites should consider incorporating Lightning BTC zaps like nostr does. That would be a way for websites to monetize content.
@@alexwr I know what it is. I used to read it, until I saw politics and messed up info, presented in wrong way, etc. When you mix tech and politics, you end up with politics.
@@moetocafe You just mixed up politics and tech here. I'm not in the US so all this woke stuff is idiotic to me anyway. I'm making an assumption that you are in the US but if you are not there then why on Earth would you fall for idiotic American wedge politics. Anyway, have a good day but please can you keep the sad US politics out of tech comments.
@ I am not mixing anything. I just have the good hygiene of avoiding "media", which sell politics in anything - tech, medicine, science, etc, etc. Because when you mix politics with anything - you end up with politics.
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You can also use someone else's instance of FreshRSS, so if you don't want to install it, you can do that instead. freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html
I'm a Miniflux fan myself, but any way you RSS is a good way to RSS. I don't know how anybody could follow webcomics without RSS, for one thing.
Kenmei
Love Miniflux. It doesn't have read later feature though.
I didn't know RSS was still around. I used to use it all the time back in the 2000s and early 2010s. I even had it set up to replace my youtube sub feed. But little by little everyone I was following that way stopped updating, and it seemed harder and harder to find sites that used it.
Some sites no longer support it, but a lot do.
@@haplozetetic9519 Even Facebook supports it. My grocery store only posts their ads on their FB page, so I set up an RSS thing to email me the ads whenever they post.
Google Reader was a great one, but of course Google ended it.
even usenet is still around
I love using RSS. Wish more websites and blogs would offer this. Sometimes its a bit hidden and I have to try few things to get a feed, but often they don't provide any at all. My RSS reader is actually Thunderbird. :D
Note: RSS is 10 years younger than the Web, and about 40 years younger than the Internet.
RIP Aaron Swartz
who's that 🤔
@@leonbishop7404 he is a young and smart guy who helped create both Reddit and RSS, but he also downloaded a lot of scientific papers that he wanted to publish and the FBI went after him hard and he committed unalive.
@@leonbishop7404 Creator of Reddit, RSS and others. Believed information should be free. Legend
@@leonbishop7404 co author of RSS 1 .0
@@leonbishop7404 Guy who helped develop RSS, reddit, markdown, and the creative commons organization. He died sortly after the FBI charged him with the crime of distributing academic papers for free. He has a whole wiki page dedicated to him.
I'm not sure what adblocker you are using, but I never get popups...might need an upgrade.
Most people use ublock. But even with all filters on, I often see "allow our cookies" popups. I end up using the element blocker on them.
@@Tall_Order try the extension called “I Still Don’t Care About Cookies”
He's probably using the crappy adblocker in Vivaldi. I'm using uBlock Origin in Firefox and I never get any pop-ups either.
@@Tall_Order I use adgaurd and those are the only ones I get and I don't think I am using the 'annoyance flter'. I don't get youtube ads either(sorry, but I'm not sorry...I can't stand ads).
I too don't get ads or popups. He needs to look around and see that there is away around all of that. (Ublock Origin, Ghostery, Privacy Badger or just get a browser like Blaze, Firefox or Mullvad)
I use rss inside thunderbird for a long time.
Me too. One day when I learned that my Thunderbird can also use RSS, it stroke me. Why do I need another feed reader? Now if only had Thunderbird a system tray icon, it would be perfect.
@@thingsiplay I am on Fedora 41 and I achieved the tray behavior I want by using Betterbird with the "When Betterbird is minimized move it to the tray" option. This setting it the only reason I am using Betterbird over Thunderbird right now. I also installed two extensions; "Minimize on Close" and "Minimize on startup" (since Betterbird is an autostart program for me).
Of course for any of this to work on Gnome the extension "AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support" is required.
Good RSS is hard: It must excel as a native client for reading, filtering, organizing, archiving, have good themes, text resizing, accessibility, and syncing across multiple devices and platforms (iOS, Android, desktop). THEN it must also function as either a reliable, super advanced web scraper or an integrated browser that renders websites flawlessly.
That’s why freshrss is good. You can use it with almost any client.
I like that thunderbird has the option to open up the full webpage automatically, with ad blockers and dark reader stuff.
but hey whatever works for you is the best choice
Well, I just finished outlining a video on fresh rss and then this showed up on my timeline lol. Cheers to this
What a great take on avoiding the ad pollution on the interwebs. Love it!
Hosting an rss aggregator makes sense if you have numerous devices with their own rss clients you wish to sync. If you only have a single device for reading rss, don't bother with services like freshrss and directly use a rss client on the device (I use newsboat).
Thought this was going to be on suckless surf browser.
With full text rss you can get the full content of the article :)
You can use Full Text RSS to get the whole articles.
RSS is the past and the future
You damn near need an IT degree to defend your web browser from the tsunami of loud, intrusive ads. I use Brave browser plus adguard DNS and I have a mostly tolerable browsing experience. Most users have never heard of Brave and don't know what DNS is. They aren't even aware that ads are blockable. Poor devils!
Firefox with an adblocker add on works fine for me.
I use Firefox's addon Feedbro.
Rss is still a thing?
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I came to this same conclusion a couple years ago and setup a big collection of RSS feeds. I manage them on my android phone though, instead of on the desktop as I'd not found an RSS feeder that was still staying modern. I'll take a deeper look at FreshRSS
Hey Matt, have you done a video on password managers? I'd be curious to hear about your experience on that front. I just got a year sub to BitWarden and migrated to Firefox to de-Google and de-Microsoft where I can, but it is proving to be difficult because the tools available in that direction seem to be poorly implemented. To be fair Firefox password manager by itself seems pretty seamless so maybe I'll just work with that...
Most of the internet I use is the fediverse and its not a bad experience at all. I dont even need an adblock until i click on a link to leave.
for mobile, feeder can be used from fdroid
This is why I love open source ❤❤❤❤
Tried a few self hosted rss feeds and fresh was the only one to work well. Nice 👍
Very interesting App .. although Personally I use the Build in RSS Feed inside the Vivaldi Browser ... mainly that it's nice to have it also as a widget on the new tab page but I can understand that you would not use it since it's a bit wonky to control and it's not sorting itself so neatly .. fortunately I do not have that many feeds :D
RSS is the way. Many websites have dropped any sort of syndication/feed document, but that just means I'm much less likely to see their content. Additionally, RSS can be used as a lightweight solution to any number of things like message buses, queues, and notification.
is there a future in which the AT Protocol replaces RSS??
New camera angle sucks
I thought this is gonna be a pun about a suckless browser implementation
can you use an API other than Google?...I'm tired of them logging data about me.
Maybe. I'm unsure. I know there are some other ways to connect, but I've never tried them. I also seem to remember they lack some functionality, but I may be misremember that
Need help how to use...Installed on arch and have no clue how to proceed. Would aapreciate any help. Thanks
Join my discord. I can help you there. I don't do support through comments anymore.
Lmao the ending
Good way to keep track of good sources... now if you're adding UA-cam and reddit to RSS......
Who says that rss won't be spoiled by adds any time soon?
it hasn’t happened in 30 years. But you never know I guess.
I don't know how to feel about this. RSS is great if all you want to do is read news articles from the same websites. If you want to use the web for browsing, then it's terrible and useless. Personally I have no need for getting the latest and greatest in news synchronized to every device I own, I just want to go explore shit, and this kind of system centralizes the web even more than it already is.
Now I'm not chronically online, so I won't be hungry for more and more and MORE every hour of the day. When I come home from work, I'll read news for a bit, but that's not what I do to help me relax. I'll play some games, and then I'll tumble down a couple rabbit holes on the web, scouring various websites for curious information. So for me, RSS would detract from my experience and make it even worse.
It's not terrible and useless. It's a destination. Sure you have to use the regular way of doing things to find stuff, but once it's found, plop it in your RSS reader and you get it delivered to your doorstep.
@@TheLinuxCast But that only really matters if that's what you want to do often. Otherwise, this becomes yet another app and yet another service with a very niche use case.
I am blessed. I don't see any pop ups or adds
Thank you ghostery
No clue what that is
@@TheLinuxCast It's a lesser known web browser (based in Germany, I think), which, like Floorp (from Japan), seems to takes user-privacy very seriously.
For other viewers of your fine channel, these two are well worth adding to their usual list of decent browsers (Librewolf, Firefox -- to a large extent, Brave, etc).
Please keep up your great work👍!
@@TheLinuxCast ghostery is one of the first ad block security extensions I have used for many years. using it with Ublock origin it makes my browsing virtually ad free.
@@TheLinuxCast www.ghostery.com they also have a browser for phones
@@TheLinuxCast works great in Vivaldi too
it's cool but the whole selfhosting and sync with other pcs and mobile aplications it's kina convoluted and not practical for most people compared to proprietary services
Also the fact it needs docker. I never could get that thing to work right. Nothing I ever installed that way ever launched.
@Tall_Order yeah, it's confusing unless you're network savvy and so on. Opening the network to the internet whole keepingit secure from attacks is also a whole ordeal by itself
It's not internet you have a problem with, it's the World Wide Web.
C'mon Gopher is RIGHT THERE.
Gnu/Linux person right here.
I'm not sure what the advantage is of hosting a RSS online as opposed to just installing a RSS client on your device.
You put all your freeds in this one app, and then every client you use just uses this. No need to add your feeds or transfer them to ever yapp
@@TheLinuxCast Aah that makes sense
Not to forget the RSS clients also sync what you have read and what you haven't read yet through the API.
Love it!
Dude two days ago i thought about this problem also and I installed Akregator :D RSS is good solution to stop treating our heads like garbage information collectors.
I have very little pop up problem.
the internet is just a bootloader for youtube
i love freshrss if u use casa os its super easy to set up i use freshrss on pc and then i use readyou on phone in which i use freshrss greader api and its super awesome to use
If you're still seeing ads on the Internet ur duin itt worng. 😊😎
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but using Firefox, I literally never see ads and I never see pop-ups. Again, literally never.
RSS is the Internet though, no? I think you mean the web sucks. For reading prose. The main downside of RSS for those of us that mainly read about code is that clients/readers don't handle syntax highlighting or other features that technical writing pages offer like code copy, etc.
You're one of those gnu/linux guys, aren't you?
@@TheLinuxCast hahaha, I swear I'm not, but fair play. Definitely an annoying pedant.
@@TheLinuxCast Right, there's no difference between browsing youtube and playing a game, since it's the internet.
@ You are right about the formatting. It's not just code either. RSS isn't really maintained, I don't think, so I doubt it gets better. Still very useful tho
@@TheLinuxCast Agreed about its usefulness! I've been using it for news since 2003, and I built many a feed back in the day. As long as we're being pedantic, however, RSS is not "almost as old as the Internet itself." It's only been around since '99, so not even as old as the Web itself. But I'm sure at your age that seems like the same.thing, so I was gonna let it pass until you pulled the gnu thing out haha.
suckless? as in dwm? lol, great video!
use a script blocker
Use rss in emacs!
The adblocker in Vivaldi is pretty crappy. That's probably why you're getting these pop-ups.
nah, it's fine. The story in the video was a generalization.
@@TheLinuxCast Okay, but I hardly ever get any pop-ups with Ublock Origin in Firefox.
the Internet sucks today, but so does RSS ...
popups? what are you talking about? there are no popups
Fan fiction? Hope it's not Sonic fan-fic hahaha
"The Internet sucks, use the Internet instead".. got it.
The Internet Blackout ?
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FreshRSS is surprisingly light for what it can offer.
FreshRSS, podcasts, and websites should consider incorporating Lightning BTC zaps like nostr does. That would be a way for websites to monetize content.
Your setup is getting worse day by day!
I feel like a suckless internet would take quite some time to compile. I'd definitely enable the --NO-FASCISM flag this time round too.
Gizmodo? The Verge?
This is woke crap, dude...
🤔
It's tech news... It's useful to keep up with what's going on with mainstream tech as well for his job.
Also, how the hell is tech news woke?
@@alexwr I know what it is. I used to read it, until I saw politics and messed up info, presented in wrong way, etc.
When you mix tech and politics, you end up with politics.
@@moetocafe You just mixed up politics and tech here. I'm not in the US so all this woke stuff is idiotic to me anyway. I'm making an assumption that you are in the US but if you are not there then why on Earth would you fall for idiotic American wedge politics. Anyway, have a good day but please can you keep the sad US politics out of tech comments.
@ I am not mixing anything. I just have the good hygiene of avoiding "media", which sell politics in anything - tech, medicine, science, etc, etc.
Because when you mix politics with anything - you end up with politics.
@ Some examples would be nice!
How do you define woke as well? It's such a vague and nebulous term, it's hard to pin it down.