Does anyone know what an RSS feed is?

[hellodreamymiku]

Hi everyone, I've been trying to separate my time online from social media to a more decentralized and academia focused surfing, I want to read blog posts and articles posted on the internet that have actual meaningful value, keeps me up to date with the world and is far from hate speech/sludge content so that I can learn something important from it. I asked chatgpt for some suggestions on sites I can go and read blogs from and it suggested that I subscribe to RSS feeds to keep up with sites and find content to read. I know chatgpt isn't the best "search engine" to discover parts of the web, still the suggestion on RSS feeds actually grabbed my interest and for the past hour I've been trying to figure out exactly what it is and how to use it. So far my understanding goes like this; theres rss which is a technology that grabs the latest news/content from websites and puts them together on a file, which can be read from an rss reader which kinda looks like an email inbox. Please tell me if my understanding of it was flawed. I still don't know if websites still use rss because I remember seeing the orange icon of rss ever since I was a child I just thought it was unimportant and never learned what it means, maybe it's been too long and there's no point in using an rss feed in 2023? I'd like to hear what you guys have to say about RSS. Do you use rss to have a feed outside of social media? Do you like it/is it still worth it in 2023?

[Melooon]

Of course  We actually have an RSS guide on the wiki you might find useful (you might even be able to add to it) - https://wiki.melonland.net/rss_guide

Personally I use it for following this forum, and a number of personal blogs people write! (If you run a blog I think it’s really important to offer reliable RSS)

Edit: there is also a thread where you can share feeds you enjoy! https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=307.msg1915#msg1915

[hellodreamymiku]

Thanks a lot melon!!! What a nice way to recieve news, seems exciting >.<

[starbreaker]

Just about every website that runs WordPress provides a RSS feed. It's an undead technology. It's "dead" in the sense that it isn't commercially useful -- you can't reliably track or advertise to RSS subscribers -- but a lot of people still use it.

You could be one of them if you want.

And even though I'm reworking my site to get away from the blog pattern, I still intend to provide full-text and headlines-only Atom feeds (Atom being a successor standard to RSS; your reader can probably handle both.)