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Author: Wim Dupont <wim@wimdupont.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 13:14:22 -0400
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+A while ago, but still late to the party, I discovered RSS. And, upon discovery,
+I soon realised that here at last was what I had been searching for.
+
+For those who don't know or have forgotten all about it: RSS is a web feed or
+data format which can be used to keep track multiple different websites for
+updates in an RSS reader. RSS was released in 1999 and, according to Wikipedia,
+it gained widespread use between 2005 and 2006.
+
+Keeping track of news websites, blogs, etc. used to be a big pain for me. At one
+point, I had a bookmark folder in my browser with all the sites I used to check
+regularly. Every so often, I opened all the sites under that folder in bulk and
+just went to each open tab one by one to see if there were any updates that
+looked interesting. The reason why I'm writing this post is because I often see
+people using the same or similar methods.
+
+Because of RSS, you can download a reader and it will check all updates for you.
+You don't need to open up a browser to check the websites itself, which, as
+you probably know, is often bloated with lots of advertisements anyways and has
+slow rendering as a result. _(To be fair though, I also just don't really like
+using the browser, or most GUIs in general.)_ You could also, for example, use it
+to follow channels on odysee or invidious (/youtube) by registering the RSS URL
+of the channel in your reader. So, instead of subscribing to the feeds on the
+platform itself, you can manage them all in the same app.
+
+However, not all sites provide RSS, or at least not in obvious locations. For
+several of them, I had to inspect the HTML source code to find the URL. But, if
+your current method of following the news is rather cumbersome, or you just want
+to try out something new, give RSS a shot. For me, at least, it was quite a
+jaw-dropper.
