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RSS is the OG subscribe button of the iNTERNET and you should use it to keep track of your favorite blogs and other updates.

I used to have a whole lot of feeds I subscribed to, but after some time I realized, I only ever read a few. From those these are the ones I think at least some people here might find intetesting:

Low Tech Magazine
An eco guy writes this. He mostly discusses pre-modern or early industrial era technologies and ways of life and how they were in many respects better than what we do today.

Thulean Perspective
Blog of our favorite pagan LARPer Varg Vikernes.

Luke Smith
Based linux guy, speculated Unabomber 2.
 
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Hamsteroid said:
I use RSS to follow multiple YouTube channels. This way, I don't have to be logged in to receive notifications of new videos or streams. Another advantage is that you still have the URL if a video gets unlisted later.
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YouTube still supporting RSS seems like a miracle to me, like its an old legacy system on a server they forgot existed.
If you want to subscribe to a channel using RSS, use this format:
"https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<insert channel id here>"
For example, using Luke Smith's channel:
"https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA"

Pre 4chan hack, they used to have RSS feeds for each board (I subscribed to /g/, /wg/ and /w/) but they have been down since the hack and don't seem like they are coming back :(
 
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Hamsteroid said:
I use the Feedbro extension for my browser: Just go to the channel's page, click on the Feedbro icon in your browser's panel and select "Find Feeds in Current Tab". The default name is always "RSS", but you can change it before subscribing.
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I use a similar extension called Get RSS Feed URL which makes it very easy to get the URL.
Also helped gotten RSS URLs on news sites that got rid of the RSS button years ago, and just like YT its probably long forgotten functionality. Still works at least.
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However I don't use RSS in the browser (I prefer RSS Guard personally) so copying the link straight into RSS Guard is the best way to do it. Syncs really nice with Tiny Tiny RSS that I have set up, so I have RSS on numerous devices all synced.

Is Feedbro good? I heard mixed things about it when investigating RSS apps a while back.
 
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Gone Innawoods said:
What do you use for that youtube theme? An extension, userscript? It looks really nice.
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Two user scripts, V3 and StarTube.
I use Violentmonkey on Brave and it runs perfectly with this setup. Faster then regular YT in my experience.
Plenty of configuration options too, you can select pretty much any YouTube theme dating back to 2008.
 
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YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
Is Feedbro good? I heard mixed things about it when investigating RSS apps a while back.
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I've been using Feedbro for a while now, and it does the job well enough.

If I remember correctly, I switched to it because my RSS reader at the time broke and other programs either didn't have a filter function, had quirks that annoyed me, or felt like you had to have a degree in computer science to set them up. I'm pretty sure that there are better solutions out there, but since Feedbro has worked for me so far, I've never bothered to look any further.
 
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Hamsteroid said:
I've been using Feedbro for a while now, and it does the job well enough.

If I remember correctly, I switched to it because my RSS reader at the time broke and other programs either didn't have a filter function, had quirks that annoyed me, or felt like you had to have a degree in computer science to set them up. I'm pretty sure that there are better solutions out there, but since Feedbro has worked for me so far, I've never bothered to look any further.
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Fair enough, I'll stick with RSS Guard then since I'm very happy with it.
It has good filtering and an option to automatically sort RSS feeds alphabetically (I was having a surprising amount of problems with that).
I can even get temperamental RSS feeds like private torrent trackers, pages behind CloudFlare and even Kiwi Farms (thanks to KiwiFlare) working, that didn't work elsewhere.
Gone Innawoods said:
Tysm man, I downloaded V3 right away, didn't even need StarTube. Nevermind the much improved aesthetics, but YouTube is actually usable again.
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No worries, StarTube is just a handy extra , but if you are happy enough with the V3 default you don't need it.
Get an absolute fuck ton of theme options with it.
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IsThereAnyDeal has a nice little user login specific RSS wishlist to inform you about historical, monthly, etc price lows but you have to set it up
IsThereAnyDeal bundle notifications: https://isthereanydeal.com/feeds/US/USD/bundles.rss
IsThereAnyDeal game giveaways: https://isthereanydeal.com/feeds/FI/giveaways.rss
Whomp: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/rss
Perry Bible Fellowship: https://pbfcomics.com/feed/
KommandoStore new merch: https://kommandostore.com/collections/catalog-sorted-by-new.atom
Blusky has RSS for creators, Reddit has RSS for subreddits, 4chan used to have RSS for the latest 25 threads on each board but that broke after the hack and they refuse to fix it

As others have said use FeedBro to find .atom and .rss on specific sites.
My RSS reader is Fluent Reader which runs like shit because it's an electron application but it looks nice enough and you can use a regex on every feed you give it pretty easily.
 
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herefortheactualthreads said:
help a retard out, how do i start using RSS?
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Install a reader either as a standalone application, an extension on your browser, or an email application.
Find some feeds that you have an interest in and plug them into whatever you're using for RSS(This is the hardest part). Set a refresh period for how often you should pull updates from these feeds(I do 10 minutes but that was mainly for when the 4chan RSS still worked)
Use whatever filtering your RSS reader provides to better curate what's coming through on your feed. Sometimes this is via regex which will only grab items in the feed that meet a specific text string definition.
 
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YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
I use a similar extension called Get RSS Feed URL which makes it very easy to get the URL.
Also helped gotten RSS URLs on news sites that got rid of the RSS button years ago, and just like YT its probably long forgotten functionality. Still works at least.
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However I don't use RSS in the browser (I prefer RSS Guard personally) so copying the link straight into RSS Guard is the best way to do it. Syncs really nice with Tiny Tiny RSS that I have set up, so I have RSS on numerous devices all synced.

Is Feedbro good? I heard mixed things about it when investigating RSS apps a while back.
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Holy shit. We got more Luke Smith videos? I thought he would never do youtube again.
 
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