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[-] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago
[-] Anahkiasen 16 points 2 months 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

[-] miguel@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Considering it's shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it's very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn't make it dead.

[-] SCmSTR 1 points 1 month 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 points 1 month 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think of it as the internet coming to 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): https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/05/thunderbird-rss-feeds-guide-favorite-content-to-the-inbox/

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

My RSS feeds outnumber my newsletters like 40 to 1. It's an incredibly lively and convenient way to syndicate updates of any kind.

[-] Snoopy@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Why ? I use it for plenty website 🤔

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago
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