Serious question. Why don’t sites stop providing a feed and force users to their website to get ads showing?
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I don't know anything about RSS. Can someone point me in the right direction to start?
In a nutshell, an RSS feed reader will aggregate any articles/posts from sites you choose. I pull all my local news and a subreddit into my reader.
Thank you for this YSK post, I've set up my first reader/feed and think this will be a nice value-added system since ditching Reddit a few weeks back. Especially in concert with Lemmy!
The majority of my information comes from RSS feeds. However, I depend on Lemmy (formerly I depended on Reddit) for the things that pop up in an area of interest that I might other wise have missed.
Been a Feedly user for years and I love it. I browse it throughout the day.
I'd like to see RSS feeds as communitys/magazines.
I like FeedMe (on Android). It's really versatile to customise the UX to your liking.
I did this a few days ago and fucked up. do not add sites that requires a paid subscription. lol
Newsblur is my favorite. It's paid, but I find the subscription fee reasonable.
Has some of the old social features of gReader, but it's not that active.