Thank you!

And nothing of value will be lost?

There is! Click that gear icon and you can change the default action of the Subscribe button. Though iirc copy isnt an option, but there are options to open your default RSS reader or link to the feed directly. I will add an option to make this a copy. I appreciate it!

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.

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.

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.

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

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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Why and how could it?

It does not, but there are many tools that can create feeds from static sources, like you mention, that pair great with Tuvix. Tuvix is mostly a consumer, but it also has the ability to publish new feeds from a mix of sources. That’s useful if you want to show your “tech” news feeds in your self hosted dashboards like Glance.

Also it’s vibe coded. And downvoting doesn’t change that.