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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?

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Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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