I switched over to rss for a lot of things a while ago but I do it a little awkwardly by sending everything to my email, for which I use ifttt. On the flipside, this does mean that I can get Twitter updates also emailed to me (though I guess technically that’s not rss). I also definitely use my email tools to auto label and sort emails like this, especially if I feel like I’m getting overwhelmed. (With a full on rss reader, I started to feel like it was a whole other email inbox I had to check, which didn’t really work for me.)
I use Dreamwidth’s track function though, instead of rss, because otherwise I won’t get notified about non-public posts (I think some people have mentioned that some feed readers allow login but it’s not all for sure).
For YouTube I actually use the “notify” levels of subscriptions - if you set the channels you care about to notify for all, you can access YouTube entirely via your notifications page which shows up in chronological order (only the notify for all channels) and doesn’t auto play, which is really nice (also works on the app). I also have an integration where all videos I “like” on YouTube get bookmarked on raindrop, so I do keep some record of them.
Rss really is such a powerful and useful access method/function/tool(whatever!
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Date: 2025-03-18 05:40 pm (UTC)I switched over to rss for a lot of things a while ago but I do it a little awkwardly by sending everything to my email, for which I use ifttt. On the flipside, this does mean that I can get Twitter updates also emailed to me (though I guess technically that’s not rss). I also definitely use my email tools to auto label and sort emails like this, especially if I feel like I’m getting overwhelmed. (With a full on rss reader, I started to feel like it was a whole other email inbox I had to check, which didn’t really work for me.)
I use Dreamwidth’s track function though, instead of rss, because otherwise I won’t get notified about non-public posts (I think some people have mentioned that some feed readers allow login but it’s not all for sure).
For YouTube I actually use the “notify” levels of subscriptions - if you set the channels you care about to notify for all, you can access YouTube entirely via your notifications page which shows up in chronological order (only the notify for all channels) and doesn’t auto play, which is really nice (also works on the app). I also have an integration where all videos I “like” on YouTube get bookmarked on raindrop, so I do keep some record of them.
Rss really is such a powerful and useful access method/function/tool(whatever!