I’ve gotten to a point in my privacy journey where it’s less about moving towards private options, and more about relaxing and having some fun with what I can do.
I put off messing around with RSS for a while. I simply didn’t have a significant need for it. However, after finding no good options to monitor various Lemmy communities without logging in, I decided to try out an RSS reader.
I settled on Feeder as my RSS reader, despite a few missing features I would like. I added my first Lemmy community as a feed, to try it out. I was immediately surprised how well it worked.
I also added other feeds, such as Tails News, and I was happy with that. I could monitor all the communities I needed to.
Then, I noticed one day, there was an RSS button for my Lemmy inbox. This is where I was really pleased: I can view my notifications without the need to log in, all in the same place.
Lemmy and RSS are both incredible, and I truly believe RSS is the hidden backbone of the internet. I love it, and maybe you should give it a try too!
(Ahem P.S. if anyone has an RSS reader as good as Feeder for Android that fixes this issue, please let me know)
I love RSS.
I run FreshRSS as my server via docker and connect to it via Read You on Android and NewsFlash on Linux
I also run RSS-Bridge in docker. It has been really useful as it can generate RSS feeds for many websites that don’t natively have them.
I personally hate newsletters because
- my email inbox is already cluttered enough as it is
- I need to share my email to subscribe, which puts the balance of power into the hands of the sender at the expense of my privacy
I’d rather have newsletters made available through RSS feeds, where I can subscribe and unsubscribe anonymously.
You can turn newsletters into RSS feeds anonymously through Kill the Newsletter.
I’ve been using it for over a year and it works flawlessly. Highly recommend!
