What is RSS?
If you're new to the internet, you have probably subscribed to a feed before, be that a YouTube channel, a Twitter account or a substack page.
RSS allows you to subscribe to any feed you want and get notifications all from one application.
these feeds can include but are not limeted to
- YouTube channels and other tube sites
- Twitter accounts
- SubReddits and Reddit users
- Blogs of all kinds
- News filtered by category
- Podcasts
This works by including an additional file to that includes information about each post formatted in XML and then the application simply fetches this file over and over saving new posts each time.
Finding an RSS application
Android
android has plenty of rss feed readers you can find on the play store but for the purposes of this article we'll only talk about open source ones particularly on F-Droid
- Curator
- Feeder
- Nunti
- Read You
Linux and unix
My favourite reader for unix systems is sfeed, this solution might be too suckless for newcommers, for them I would recommend:
- Newsboat (curses)
- Newsflash (gtk-4.0/GNOME)
- Akregator (Qt/KDE)
Getting feed links
There is no standard file names for feeds files but you can find them linked in the head section in html under rel=alternate.
You can also find them in any of these paths with any of these names:
- https://domain.tld/feed/
- https://domain.tld/feed.xml
- https://domain.tld/index.xml
- https://domain.tld/atom.xml
- https://domain.tld/rss.xml
Some RSS apps do the job for you as well.