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

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

  • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Catered feeds, for example.

    You can create a feed that only includes Lemmy communities dedicated to a specific topic - like only those related to video games in some broad sense. Or a news-only feed.

    It’s much more convenient that just subscribing to everything you’re interested in and then trying to filter out on our own (good luck not forgetting stuff), as you’re basically on the algorithm’s mercy as well.

      • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Lemmy, too, has algorithms that determine what you see - how many upvotes a post has, how many comments, how recent, etc. The communities you subscribe to may have some high-quality, niche posts that you’re very likely to miss because they’re overshadowed by bigger, more active communities where posts simply gain more traction - RSS lets you circumvent that.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nl
          2·
          9 months ago

          Sure, I might miss something. But if I wanted to manually curate my feed I wouldn’t be here.

          I could use RSS and miss high-quality posts too. Much more likely, actually.