I have been selfhosting miniflux, and using Capy Reader on Android. Been using this for almost two years now. It's been great.
Mostly use it for news and blogs. But I follow some lemmy community and mastodon feeds with this as well. Anything with an RSS feed can be followed.
Automatically downloading new Anime episodes on my home server. I use qBittorrent, which allows you to add RSS feeds and add any new item on the feed to your downloads: I feed it RSS links from Nyaa, setup the auto downloader and done! As soon as I turn the server on, it is downloaded in a few minutes.
And also the usual fetching articles from news sites with NewsBlur (though trying to move away from that app, it's starting to feel bloated and the dev uses way too much LLMs for my liking)
My best strategy has been to use Lemmy, and then if I liked a post shared here, I would check if that post came from a site with an RSS feed.
I’ve also been reading posts on bubbles.town and finding lots of fun niche little blogs to subscribe to. Bubbles has its own RSS feeds, too, sharing the highest-voted posts.
Also, more relevant to this community, I’m watching feeds for releases for most of the software I’m running.
Lots of good responses so far. I'll add my favorite: https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss which is the only sane way for me to discover posts on popular forum boards like reddit and Lemmy. I can set the number of posts I'm shown a day, and it adds friction to the process of interacting with the post, which means if I comment, I really wanted to :)
youtube channels, blogs, news, software releases, etc
i use freshrss. allows me to sub to websites that don't have rss/atom by parsing html.
i use reeder classic on ios and easyrss on android
I used to have it get a digest of reddit posts from my subscribed subreddits, so that I could still get the stuff not posted elsewhere, without actually going to reddit.
commit history of some software i use
I've used Protopage as my start page for years. I put each news source in in a small window which includes the five most recent post. I see the title and hover for for the intro.
The reason I've used Protopage so long is because it will parse many websites without proper RSS feeds.
I was going to send a screenshot of my start page but I don't know how to it in linux.
I use it for a lot of the same things folks have already said. Following news (Google News does RSS), some tech blogs, news releases for the things I'm invested in, some GitHub releases, the Lemmy communities I subscribe to (including this one), etc. I still kinda follow RSS feeds on Reddit, but that's probably dead in a week. I've also used RSS-Bridge to build feeds for things that don't automatically come with one, like some things on Lemmy that I wish did.
I use it for pretty much everything I care about that's posted online. I selfhost RSSHub to get updates from sites that don't provide RSS. It's much more convenient to have a universal inbox that's under my control than have to remind myself to manually check dozens of browser tabs, all with their own algorithmic "for you" feeds. barf.
To not see ads in articles and still see at least headlines of what is going in the world. I'll sub to many news outlets for stuff I don't even read just because much of my online presence is fairly absent of algorithms and that has resulted in me not knowing what people are talking about too many times, even if it is stupid. Sometimes a single YouTube title and thumb nail is all I need to see to know something happened in the world. So this way the things I want to see, and things I don't want to see are separated, so I have to actively to go out of my way to look at it. Its not blasting my mind palace 24/7 will bullshit every time I want to look at a picture of a cat or whatever.
I also use it to add YouTube channels I don't watch, but again want to keep up with trends so I have a large list of popular channels, and ones that I know will make a video about clickbait nonsense. So they are the canarie in the coal mine for me on certain issues/topics.
That way none of it gets loaded on my phone my RSS server handles it, I can view it from there. Also I don't need to load up 700+ channels every time I refresh my newpipe subscription on my phone. I also have sit down and view channels separated to my pipepipe profile on my PC. The channels on my phone are more listening/podcast like experiences.
I also subscribed to a bunch of small things, gaming projects to get updates, or comics, etc but they get buried because I don't seperate my feed and its been less useful. Its just not in my habit of checking my RSS feed for that kind of stuff. It used to be more useful for fun stuff when reddit let you use it with RSS but I think they stopped that? Its feels like you can turn less random news pages into RSS feeds these days too. So yeah now its mostly kind of a boring place that aggregates all of my news and world info.
RSS for in $current_year such as subscribing to a youtube channel without being logged in/directly using the frontend.
I use RSS to subscribe to my favorite channels on invidious. https://invidious.io/
I mostly use it to digest news, webcomics, and free video games.
Metric f ton of comics.
Apart from the other things people mentioned here, I recently deployed pinchflat-ngx: it subscribes to youtube channels and produces an RSS feed of videos it downloaded. I had issues with the using the RSS feed from youtube directly - it appears to break more often than not. That pinchflat feed I use in my miniflux instance.
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Is that a joke or a bot?
Regardless I use Newsflash RSS for this stuff and more:
Security alerts
Hard to keep up as AI finds all these serious bugs every week
sub to the security list of any software you are hosting or care about.
eg my ${DAY_JOB} is drupal so i sub to https://www.drupal.org/security/all/rss.xml
RSS feed based news has been my favorite use. Keep a reader open all day to see the titles as they happen.
I glance at The War Zone occasionally (twz.com) to see if there's anything interesting and worth posting here on the Threadiverse.
Following github releases
Lots of stuff, but here's a neat one https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss - top ten hacker news for the day.
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Today‘s Top Tune from KCRW via gPodder
I've run my own since Google Reader shutdown. I add any site I come across that it interesting. I look at their content and then add them. If they get spamy or suck, I remove them.
to make toast.
Google Reader ---->. Feedly and stopped there. from a variety of news sites and blogs.
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