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- | Why use RSS, rather than social media platforms to follow articles, news, opinion pieces? | + | Why use RSS, rather than social media platforms, to follow articles, podcasts, news, and opinion pieces? |
- | RSS Feed doesn’t have an algorithm, it doesn’t | + | RSS Feed doesn’t have an algorithm; it doesn’t |
- | Many websites, podcasts etc. have actually feeds that you can follow them directly. | + | Many websites, podcasts, etc., actually |
- | **1) RSS Reader App options to use**\\ | + | **1. RSS Reader App options to use**\\ |
- | * Self-hosted RSS feed aggregator | + | * Self-hosted RSS feed aggregator [[https:// |
- | //How to self host RSS reader//: [[https:// | + | //How to self-host an RSS reader//: [[https:// |
* Reeder Classic - you pay once to buy the app\\ | * Reeder Classic - you pay once to buy the app\\ | ||
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* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * Nextcloud gives you a free reader as a web app\\ | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * Opera, Vivaldi, and Mozilla Firefox have the use option as RSS reader\\ | ||
+ | * For Linux, you can use the NewsFlash\\ | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
- | | + | **2. Turning newsletters into feeds:**\\ |
- | * [[https://miniflux.app|Miniflux]]\\ | + | With //Kill the Newsletter//, |
- | * Opera, Vivaldi, Mozilla Firefox have the use option as RSS reader\\ | + | [[https:// |
- | | + | **3. Full Text RSS**\\ |
+ | Some RSS feeds may show you only a short version of an article in your RSS reader, but you want to be able to read them in full length in your RSS reader application and don't want to be forced to go to the source website, so it's better to throw the feed links all first into here: [[http:// | ||
- | **2) Turning newsletters into feeds:**\\ | + | This way, you can be sure that the article you'll get will be in the original length. In some cases, this may not work. You can preview it and see if it works. And you can self-host this one on your home server! |
- | With // | + | **4. Finding out the feed links from different platforms: |
+ | Many platforms | ||
- | [[https://kill-the-newsletter.com/]]\\ | + | * RSS from Youtube channels: You should get the RSS feed link by copying the channel link to your RSS Reader. In case that doesn' |
- | **3) Full Text RSS**\\ | + | |
- | Some RSS feeds may give you only a short version of an article in your RSS reader, but you want to be able to read them in full length in your RSS reader application and don't want to have to go the source website, so it's better to throw the feed links all first into here : [[http://ftr.fivefilters.org]]\\ | + | * RSS from Spotify. This website gives you the RSS link from a Spotify podcast profile: [[https://getrssfeed.com/]] |
- | This way you can be sure that the article you'll get will be in the original length. At some cases, this may not work. You can preview it and see if it works. And you can self host this one in your home server! \\ | + | |
- | **4) Finding out the feed links from different platforms:**\\ | + | |
- | Many platforms with good intentions already make the rss feed link visible, unlike Spotify, YouTube etc where you should not be able to reach the link so easily of course to keep you on the platform. That's why sometimes you have to figure out. Here are some examples. | + | All Mastodon accounts have an RSS feed link which can be followed from RSS readers: |
- | * RSS from Youtube channels: | + | * Go to a Mastodon account profile’s original page on a web browser. |
+ | * Copy the web address | ||
+ | * Add .rss to the end of the web address to create the account’s RSS address. | ||
+ | * Add the account’s RSS address to your RSS app. | ||
+ | * For example, the RSS feed for the FediTips account is https:// | ||
- | By copying the channel link to your RSS Reader, you should get the RSS feed link. In case that doesn' | + | * Another nice service: [[https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/|RSS feeds for websites that don't have RSS feeds]]\\ |
- | You can also migrate your existing Youtube subscriptions | + | **5. Using RSS for your DIY website: |
- | [[https:// | + | You can use RSS to announce |
- | * RSS from Substack\\ | + | To use RSS, you need an XML file, for example with the title RSS.xml In this file you will name every announcement as an item, put the information and image accordingly and upload it into your hosting space.\\ |
+ | Option 1: The XML file needs to be updated every time you update the website and every time you put new information into the news part of the website. You can update the XML file manually by yourself by editing the code, or you would need to use some script or service that does this for you.\\ | ||
- | [[https://your.substack.com/feed]] | + | An example of a RSS.xml file:\\ |
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+ | <rss version=" | ||
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- | * RSS from Spotify\\ | + | |
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- | This website gives you the RSS link from a Spotify podcast profile: | + | < |
- | [[https://getrssfeed.com/ | + | My Text here ]]> |
+ | </item> | ||
- | * RSS - Mastadon\\ | ||
- | (Copy paste from [[https:// | + | < |
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- | All Mastodon accounts have an RSS address which can be followed from RSS apps: | + | < |
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- | Go to a Mastodon account profile’s original page on a web browser. | + | < |
- | Copy the web address from the browser’s address bar | + | |
- | Add .rss to the end of the web address to create the account’s RSS address | + | |
- | Add the account’s RSS address to your RSS app | + | |
- | For example, the RSS feed for the FediTips account is https:// | + | |
- | [[https:// | + | <![CDATA[ < |
- | **5) Using RSS for your DIY website: | + | My text < |
- | You can use RSS to announce your events, exhibitions or anything new happening, without depending on social media, for your announcements where one way communication is sufficient.\\ | + | My text |
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+ | </ | ||
- | To use RSS, you need a xml file, for example with the title RSS.xml In this file you will name every announcement as an item, put the information and image accordingly and upload it into your hosting space.\\ | + | </item> |
- | Option 1: The xml file needs to be updated every time you update the website and every time you put new information into the news part of the website. You can update the xml file manually by yourself by editing the code, or you would need to use some service that does it for you.\\ | + | </ |
- | An example of a RSS.xml file: | + | </ |
- | {{: rss_file_example.png? | + | </ |