Protip: Youtube channels have RSS feeds, they're just buried in the source of the page. Ctrl-U and then Ctrl-F title="RSS"
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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I guess to get actual value from these videos you will still need to visit youtube.com though, in the end giving them valuable data to analyze.
Yeah but the goal here is to escape the algorithm deciding what you consume
good point, organic sharing is better than the addictive algorithm.
You can play YouTube videos in VLC player
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Maybe try one of the downloaders
I can recommend yt-dlp
You can also just drop the youtube channel link (ex. https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips ) as well into most readers and it'll sort it out for you, so you don't even have to go digging.
I wrote my own rss reader for youtubue, so it does this digging for me when I paste in a channel link :)
TIL. Gonna have to test this out my FreshRSS feed. Ty 🥰
I did this too recently. Highly recommend.
To OP and the few other comments sarcastically dunking on the blogger for just discovering RSS: why? It's not exactly drowning in advocates today, and there's basically a whole generation that wasn't around when Google killed off Reader. What if we treated advocacy like this like the good thing it is?
Why is it people flock to server based rss? Wtf? There are native clients galore for all platforms ever created.
Having your stuff accessible and synced, including read/unread status, across devices is a real benefit.
Fair.
You make my heart hurt, you're so right. It's getting harder and harder to find RSS or Atom links on sites. The more people rediscover these technologies, the more chance there is that site developers will continue to provide them.
It would be fantastic if more people would rediscover Usenet, and IRC, and ditch the shitty knock-offs like Discord. There's a pretty big contingent advocating for Jabber, which I'm ambivalent about, having been there when it started and when it (effectively) died and being very conscious of its flaws and limitations... but, still, these are all open standards and old-school internet - sometimes pre-web! - and they're often still better than the commoditized successors.
Embrace and encourage the new infusion of youth! Gate keeping is a very post-eternal-September behavior.
What might motivate someone to move away from using Discord?
https://archive.today/1Lfct "Spyware Level: EXTREMELY HIGH"
Usenet and IRC have bad usability and lack features compared to Discord.
IM applications like Jabber and such have been replaced by messenger apps like Telegram.
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Cool tip.
If you want news for a specific game and they release news on steam.. all steam pages have an RSS feed.
Wow that's really neat, thanks!
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