Hopefully this is a fit for this community (for getting value out of a self-hosted RSS aggregator/reader).
I’m looking for a list of high-value feeds to subscribe to or some alternative ideas to use RSS for in $current_year such as subscribing to a youtube channel without being logged in/directly using the frontend.
I use it for a lot of the same things folks have already said. Following news (Google News does RSS), some tech blogs, news releases for the things I’m invested in, some GitHub releases, the Lemmy communities I subscribe to (including this one), etc. I still kinda follow RSS feeds on Reddit, but that’s probably dead in a week. I’ve also used RSS-Bridge to build feeds for things that don’t automatically come with one, like some things on Lemmy that I wish did.
I have been selfhosting miniflux, and using Capy Reader on Android. Been using this for almost two years now. It’s been great.
Mostly use it for news and blogs. But I follow some lemmy community and mastodon feeds with this as well. Anything with an RSS feed can be followed.
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The one non-obvious thing that I use RSS for is to monitor releases on GitHub, so that when I’m waiting for some project to release some bugfix it gets conveniently listed in my RSS reader.
Google Reader ---->. Feedly and stopped there. from a variety of news sites and blogs.
RSS for in $current_year such as subscribing to a youtube channel without being logged in/directly using the frontend.
I use RSS to subscribe to my favorite channels on invidious. https://invidious.io/
My best strategy has been to use Lemmy, and then if I liked a post shared here, I would check if that post came from a site with an RSS feed.
I’ve also been reading posts on bubbles.town and finding lots of fun niche little blogs to subscribe to. Bubbles has its own RSS feeds, too, sharing the highest-voted posts.
Also, more relevant to this community, I’m watching feeds for releases for most of the software I’m running.
I used to have it get a digest of reddit posts from my subscribed subreddits, so that I could still get the stuff not posted elsewhere, without actually going to reddit.
Same here, womp womp
Metric f ton of comics.
sub to the security list of any software you are hosting or care about.
eg my ${DAY_JOB} is drupal so i sub to https://www.drupal.org/security/all/rss.xml
I glance at The War Zone occasionally (twz.com) to see if there’s anything interesting and worth posting here on the Threadiverse.
I mostly use it to digest news, webcomics, and free video games.
I’ve had FreshRSS archiving pretty much all the news sources I can find for the last several years. I use it as my primary news feed, but the archiving is my primary goal.
