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"Although the blog will be the main home for all my stuff (you can follow it via RSS and I think you should, because RSS is possibly the best and purest tech we
by shortn 1y ago
"Although the blog will be the main home for all my stuff (you can follow it via RSS and I think you should, because RSS is possibly the best and purest tech we still have)"
This. I watch youtube through my RSS feed. The videos actually loads instantly, without their BS loading times if you load it on their page (in FF with adblock). I can set up rules in my RSS feed to filter out previews/trailers from channels I follow. I can sort my YT channels into categories (music, sports, etc). It's actually usable, and the controls are in my hand.
More people needs to use RSS feeds. Don't let algorithms dictate your life. Youtube engineers are the worst.
- gh0stcat 1y agoHey, if you’re someone just getting into rss feeds, can you point me to a good guide to get started with a setup like yours?
- burkaman 1y agoIf you're willing to pay a little, I have used https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ for many years and it has every feature I've ever needed built in. You can set up everything the parent comment mentioned in a few minutes.
- rrgok 1y agoThis almost sold me: read comments. Does it support Reddit and HN comments?
- burkaman 1y agoIt does support Reddit comments. HN feeds are provided by a third party (https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss) which doesn't provide comments on posts, but you could request or implement that feature if you wanted to.
- gh0stcat 1y agoThanks, will check it out!
- AstroBen 1y agoI'm really happy with Fluent Reader - it's available on all of Windows/Mac/Linux https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader