Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kubica@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sigh, that was my wake up call to not rely on google products.

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• vinniep@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Google Reader shutdown hit me hard also. They offered all of the features in a really great app and many of the competitors shut down in their wake, so when they exited the scene, it left a huge hole.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I jumped to Feedly and have been using that ever since. After they killed reader, I’ve been very hesitant of using any new Google product, expecting and seeing them all inevitably die.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seconded. Back when Feedly had a “pay one price” special for Google reader refugees.

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another problem was that many sites shifted to providing only parts of articles instead of full versions

  That annoys me so much, that is the number one reason why I use Feeder more than Feedly nowadays (I manually keep them synced, Feedly is multiplatform and Feeder sadly isn’t) as it has a feature to download the page and use their native app view, so much better than going to the site (even with Ublock I’d rather not go unless I want to comment or see comments, which sadly isn’t a thing for most of the sites nowadays).

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, cool, thank you, I’ll check Feeder out. I want my stuff to be on my phone. I’m going to the airport right now, and spending 8,5 hours without internet. It’s funny that I wouldn’t have a problem with that in 2008, but I have now :)

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  • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that the OSS F_Droid feeder or the other one?

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• pedroapero@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I stopped following sites with dubious commercial tactics like the one you mention. After all, information is not so rare these days.

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