A fight for survival! An RSS revival!

https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-rss-revival/

While millions of people may be happy getting their news from Facebook or an aggregator like Apple News (which I also use, occasionally, for more mainstream headlines), the resiliency of RSS makes me happy. There was a time when I thought all my news could come from social feeds and timelines; today, I’m more comfortable knowing that I – not a questionable and morally corrupt algorithm – fully control hundreds of sources I read each day.

~ Federico Viticci

Hear! Hear!

Ok, but how do you use this? The SUPER easy way is to go to http://feedbin.com . There you can tell it what sites you want to follow, and FeedBin will “consume” the RSS feeds. It dove-tails them together into a linear stream of short snippettes and excerpts. You skim along only seeing things from sites you wanted to follow. Some site annoys you? …just remove that feed.

See something you like? …click through and you’re taking to the original item on the actual site. THIS is why all sites provide RSS feeds — if a site doesn’t, it’s not a real web site. Huge sites (like BBC) provide various feeds you can choose from… just international news for example.

…and yes, this blog has an RSS feed. In fact, all WordPress sites have an RSS feed AUTOMATICALLY. So that’s like a third of the internet right there.

Take a few hours to figure this out — you can thank me later.

¿ What happens if FeedBin goes away ? Same thing as when the RSS aggregator before it went away, a replacement appeared. Also, you can install a dedicated program on your own computer than can follow and present the feeds — us real geeks, we use an RSS aggregator combined with dedicated reader apps, but now I’m just showing off.
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