I have used RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”) as my default web browser (for some stuff) for ages now. Ages as in “20+ years”. It seems to be enjoying a bit of a resurgence, and I am delighted. What is RSS RSS is a way of publishing web content in a machine-readable format. When you publish a blogpost, as well as the new blogpost showing on your site, it is also added to a file, often call index.xml or feed.xml or similar. I publish RSS feeds for my personal blog and the decoded.legal blog. Your loyal, eager readers “subscribe” to your RSS feed, but that just means add the link to that RSS file to their RSS reader or aggregator. I use FreshRSS as my RSS aggregator (the thing which collects all the RSS feeds), and then Readrops on Android and newsboat (I wrote about newsboat) on Linux to read the feeds. You can see a list of blogs that I follow via RSS. A reader’s aggregator or reader periodically downloads the RSS .xml file from each of the sites, and, if there’s an update (because of…
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