Reject Convenience Forum

caracalled wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:48 am I also highly encourage adding Youtube Channels or tumblr blogs/subreddits/bsky/mastodon accounts to not get caught in the infinite scroll! Other than that I use it to follow my friends' goodreads activity, manga releases, website feeds, a longform journalism group and — of course — this and other forums! I'm excited to hear more suggestions!

Since we're talking about RSS in general a little bit, I found this article from Molly White of Citation Needed very interesting. Talking about making your own newspaper through RSS.

Personally I haven't found a nice way to integrate RSS into my lifestyle, but I'm curious how other do it! Regardless, I super value the fact that this is yet another old protocol that has stood the test of time and enabled early decentralization as a safety net for the internet.

RSS needs a serious reboot.

Its a neat way to keep up with all your favorite creators without the nasty social media. (Talking about the "mainstream" social media, Blue F, and a pink camera etc.)

I follow several feeds on my phone, and i really like the minimalist interface. I use the feeder app for android.

My weblog has also a RSS feed, and i totally embrace it. There are a lot of readers that are subscribed to my RSS feed. And thats really awesome.

Couldn't agree more with @loebas. The only way I really started using RSS sustainably was by using it as my Primary Entry Point on For all Socials. Where the biggest hurdle is YouTube, as they do offer a RSS Feed for Channels. I still have to open the Website when wanting watch the Videos, which sucked me down the Algorithm again. But I discovered with some help of tools I can directly watch the Videos in my Player/RSS Reader eliminating that. But the upside is less Algorithm to control me, and having all the things that Interest me from News to Comics from Videos to Forums all on the Same Overview.