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Truthfully I have never used RSS, beyond having to support it in a piece of software. I've never really understood the appeal and I've never been able to make i
by cpsns 4y ago
Truthfully I have never used RSS, beyond having to support it in a piece of software. I've never really understood the appeal and I've never been able to make it fit into my life.
Maybe I'm missing the point, I never read news or other such things, so perhaps there's just no use case for me.
- type0 4y agoYou can use it to check for software updates in Github releases edit: technically in Atom format but functionally it's the same, just add /releases.atom
- notadev 4y agoIn simplest terms, do you want to remember to visit 20 different sites each day or just remember to visit your RSS reader which aggregates all those sites?
- ghaff 4y agoThere are other things you can use it for--including being the behind the schemes technology for podcasts. But, yeah, that was the primary not behind the scenes use case. There's been a decline in low volume individual sites and a lot of people find sites like this one, Twitter, etc. provide sufficient discoverability for their needs in any case.