Tuvix Tricorder: A Subscribe Button for the Web
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Discover RSS and Atom feeds on any website and subscribe with a single click. Introducing Tuvix Tricorder, the official companion browser extension for Tuvix RSS.
  • runsmooth@kopitalk.netEnglish
    3·
    1 天前

    Question: I do remember the days of those RSS buttons everywhere. But I never managed to see the value in it.

    Can anyone share their experience with following feeds, and how they consume this content? Is there some kind of spam/tracker free functionality that people enjoy? Are there apps out there that organize this in a way that changes the game?

    I’d like to give it another shot, sorry for all the questions.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      1 天前

      If you want news and articles from the sites you appreciate to come to you directly and not be filtered through social media first, RSS is what you want. You get every link, and often the full text of every post, and you aren’t at the whim of an algorithm.

      Spam-free? It’s literally only what you’ve specifically asked it to deliver you. If a site starts spamming its RSS feed, you just unsubscribe from the site.

      Tracker-free? There’s literally no way anyone could track you through RSS. It’s just an XML file and can’t run any arbitrary code.

      I use it for everything I can: news sites, blogs, YouTube channels, social media feeds for people whose content I don’t want to miss. There are even services that will let you subscribe to an email newsletter through one of their inboxes, and they’ll convert it to an RSS feed for you to follow so it doesn’t clog up your actual inbox. I especially like reading webcomics through it; it makes sure I get everything, and I don’t lose my place, get spoiled by a later post, or have to rely on the whims of social media.

      I love RSS.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        14 小时前

        Tracker-free? There’s literally no way anyone could track you through RSS. It’s just an XML file and can’t run any arbitrary code.

        there is actually. the user agent string, ip address, when do the images get loaded. if clients can user server provided CSS, that too can do some conditional reports. but yes the possibilities are much fewer, they are easier to fix.

        • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          12 小时前

          Sorry, I left out the part where most RSS fetchers are not hosted by the user. Of course it is self-hostable, but that’s by far the less common use case.

          Images and CSS aren’t natively a part of RSS, though (and in fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen an RSS feed or reader that tries to do any CSS rendering at all). Assuming you have a third party downloading your RSS XML, all of the tracking capabilities are outside of the RSS spec itself, and dependent on you clicking on a link or something after you get the RSS feed.

    • TechSquidTV@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      1 天前

      Tuvix! Tuvix is your RSS aggregator app. Follow all the feeds you want there. But RSS has a discovery issue where it is difficult to find new things to subscribe to. That’s where Tricorder comes in. Use Tuvix to follow the content you want, use Tricorder to make sure you subscribe to content when you discover it.

      • runsmooth@kopitalk.netEnglish
        2·
        1 天前

        Thanks for spelling out how to get started for me. I’ll give this a try later!

        Thanks everyone for the responses!

    • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 天前

      One of the benefits when I used to use RSS was that the feed could be updated and cached so articles could be read when you don’t have an active Internet connection. Not as big of a deal these days, but a decade ago cell networks were spottier and free Wi-Fi wasn’t always available.

      I always loved how pulse layed out each of the feeds and showed the headline and first image of the article.

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      • TechSquidTV@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 天前

        The issue now is that most RSS feeds do not include content. Which is understandable So its really more of a link aggregator now. Tuvix is not a reader app yet, maybe it will be, but I have seen some apps that will fetch and cache the page for offline viewing. Maybe one day.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 天前

      Question: I do remember the days of those RSS buttons everywhere. But I never managed to see the value in it.

      I use ttRSS for feeds. I like the RSS feeds because I can get the information I desire without having to go to the site itself. Consuming RSS for me would be like, laying in bed in the evening before I retire for the night, and pulling up articles from my RSS reader, again, without having to hop around to different sites. The info is all there in one neat package.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      For me it’s two points:

      • Newsletter but instead of clogging my email inbox it goes to its own dedicated place.
      • A dedicated place to hold all the interesting blogs I find over the internet, and much more actionable that just letting them rot away inside the bookmarks of my browser