My RSS feeds outnumber my newsletters like 40 to 1. It’s an incredibly lively and convenient way to syndicate updates of any kind.
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nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoRSS is dead tech.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
No it’s not
Snoopy@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Why ? I use it for plenty website 🤔
Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
How is it dead tech if everything still works, apps are still being made and websites still publish feeds? Literally every Substack and such has an rss it’s so easy that most websites have it without knowing and don’t link it but it works anyway
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Excuse me for being a bad techie, but… Wtf is rss? I’ve been around since before dsl, and rss has never been something I’ve researched or understood.
I get that it’s a feed, i think? Is it like a file that is a subscription protocol?
Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It stands for “Really Simple Syndication” (I think).
Its a standard for sending updates to a website, but its most commonly used to aggregate stuff like posts and articles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think of it as the internet coming o you rather than you going to it.
You subscribe to updates on a website and it intelligently pulls new content/articles. Its pretty neat! Lots of clients such as Outlook/Thunderbird have built in rss support and lots of websites provide them.
Here is one such software Tiny Tiny RSS that I self host (but most dont self host from what I understand).
Get started today (if your interested): blog.thunderbird.net/…/thunderbird-rss-feeds-guid…
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