sometimes the feed aggregator will bypass the paywall for ya 👀
i also like that reading the articles in my feed reader doesn't give away any tracking information. can get the same info without visiting the source website at all. and when i do open links there's no source to show where i opened it from.
ultimately it's so much easier having most news sources in one place instead of subscribing to hella newsletters.
For the most part, I don’t visit websites. I can parse through hundreds of articles in minutes and jump immediately to what interests me. Hell of a lot faster than hopping from site to site in the hopes there’s something of interest.
I tried listening to podcasts through RSS apps in F-droid. Nothing came of this venture. These RSS readers do not support any media other than photos. I will test Miniflux in the near future. They declare their support YouTube.
I don’t think you’re looking for a reader, but a podcast app. Something like AntennaPod should do the trick. I use Pocket Casts but don’t think it’s on F-droid. Remember, RSS is an infrastructure not a user experience.
You could also use it to follow things, if you want to follow them. People often cross-post to social platforms when they publish a new thing, but if you don’t want to try and agree on a platform (or on ActivityPub) with everything you want to follow, you can use RSS.
I’ve had it sent to my work email account in outlook for the past 15 years now from various websites. It’s just way easier to click through email in the morning for 5 minutes for the 5 or so sites I would visit then to actually go there and navigate. I also have a few others that send when applications update which tells me the version and changelog.
I have never seen anyone else use this but if people see me using it and ask they think it’s useful.
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