Has anyone else (re)turned to #RSS since the #enshittification of social media began? The level of control over my feeds and the absence of algorithms (mostly speaking...) has been a breath of fresh air.
I'm using Feedly purely because I had a very old account gathering dust but I'm not super keen on its slant towards business users and its AI push. As for feeds, I've got two groups - one for general #academia blogs and sites (e.g. @thesiswhisperer) and one for #history and #sts journals.
@jacobward@histodons@academicchatter@thesiswhisperer I use an #FreshRSS instance hosted by hostux.net to organise/read my feeds. Some groups in there: general blogs (by far my favourite category due to personal commentaries, experiences, and insights), science blogs (second favourite), journals (important for everyday #academia work), and general news (least favourite because it has so much noise in it even though I curated/pruned the feeds myself). On Android I use Fluent Reader for reading.
@jacobward@histodons@academicchatter I used Feedly for years and stopped earlier this year for exactly the reasons you cite. I tried a few replacements and settled on Newsblur, which I'm liking a lot.
@jacobward@histodons@academicchatter@thesiswhisperer Never stopped using it, really? Manage a couple different groups if folders within Thunderbird, Academic Journals, Pods, Blogs and Newssites, and a couple update threads.
Just keeps on rolling.
I'd like to move a few more things there, and wished a couple other things integrated well. But we'll see what the New #thunderbird brings.
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I reinvigorated my RSS last fall after social media platforms became less reliable/suitable for straight news .
Using Inoreader. Very satisfied with it. Feeds are pretty eclectic: clumate, environment, politics, history, archaeology, and various diversions. Currently subscribed to about 90 feeds.
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Also using my old Feedly feed, that I have had since the demise of Bloglines(!).
I've been hitting it a LOT lately, but I suppose it is time to switch to something else.
my own RSS is more entertainment/idiosyncratic focused but I follow a few sources in the book/publishing vein & can point you to The Scholarly Kitchen scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org which (despite the name) covers academic & university publishing. You might also like Making Book rhollick.wordpress.com, Publishing Perspectives publishingperspectives.com, & the OASPA [Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association] oaspa.org
Re: Feedly - I've been a paid user for years now so I've kind of worked through and around all the added features, none of which are necessary, really. But I do like that Feedly automatically finds the feeds for things like youtube channels, substacks, tumbler blogs, & other sites that .have. RSS but not always a button or link on their homepage to find it
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