RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume “content.” (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It’s now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what’s new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don’t want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here’s a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

  • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzEnglish
    312·
    1 year ago

    If RSS is so great why aren’t people using it? Why isn’t there a dozen readers on the market?

    maybe it’s just not that useful and that’s why nobody is using it.

      • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        But everybody isn’t riding horses. In order for your analogy to work it would have to like this. “If horses are so great why isn’t everybody riding horses to work”

      • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        But it actually makes sense with technology. If you need help, you want there to be a large community and corpus of knowledge to draw from.

        • Ilflish@lemm.eeEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          Not really. In fact technology is often a great example of good demand but little effort put in to meet it. Open source software is riddled with issues that people are too eager enough to report but not eager enough to fix for everyone . We have an example of Palworld finally filling a niche described in the market for almost 2 decades.