I've been trying to lean back into using RSS again after realizing I shouldn't let the algorithms decide what I see. What RSS feeds do you people follow and why? Any recommendations? Do you tend to follow the RSS feeds of Lemmy as well?
I have feeds for world news, science, privacy, tech.
Recently, I started following a few local government departments via Nitter. Its pretty easy to do.
I self-host a copy of FreshRSS which does most of those things. No Android app but the PWA works.
Whether you can read the full text in the app or not usually depends on whether the source provides a feed with the full text in it - changing your reader app won't make much difference.
A whole bunch, including one that contains this very post. Currently using Feedbro in Firefox.
The eclipsing of RSS by corporate social media is such a tragedy. Obviously there are a number of causes but my personal pet peeve is the name itself. What terrible judgement to brand the thing "RSS"! Only a bunch of out-of-touch geeks could have not foreseen that this awful jargony acronym would strike most people as impossibly technical and foreboding.
It should have been called "webfeed", which is what it is.
nowadays sites usually dont provide rss, so you need something to convert webpage to rss, like rssbrige or rsshub, even rssproxy sometimes. rsshub & rssbrige also have categories/catalogs you can check if anything interests you. i wouldnt suggest follow forums with rss, because they tend to update very frequently essentially overwhelm your feeds, but i followed several cat related just for fun.
I haven't used RSS since once a long time ago when I confused it for CSS when I was trying to figure out how to change a website I didn't control's layout automatically in my browser.