• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    i don’t get why people use web services for rss, it can be done completely clientside, that’s… kind of the whole point of rss…

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      You could want to have multiple clients in sync.

      Also a web service could be fetching 24/7 and perform classification algorithms before serving to the client that will only connect a few times a day.

    • John Colagioia@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      In my case (not necessarily your case, of course), the cheapest selling-point has become that I already have a browser open for almost everything else, so that’s one less thing to install and check in on. But it’s also easier to keep up to date reading when individual computers have problems and usually has a nicer API for scripting, if you need that sort of thing.