I see the RSS symbol on some post and I was wondering how to do it since I mod 2 communities. Yes I did try to google it but I was fed sponsored links and bullshit. If someone could point me to something that is understandable for a non tech guy I would appreciate it.

  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Any site that generates content can choose to create an RSS feed. Essentially it’s a link to which the site can push new stories.

    You need an RSS client. Good news! There are a lot of free ones (and open source, too!).

    The pro’s of RSS:

    • all your different go-to news outlets in one place
    • no ad-ridden webpages
    • no dealing with interfaces of said news outlets
    • your pick ff categories, for instance if you’re not interested in celebrity gossip, you just turn that off

    The cons:

    • you’ll need to go collect RSS links from your favorite sites
    • one of your sites might no longer use RSS because they don’t get ad revenue for it
    • RSS readers are often not pretty
    • you might get weirdly formatted text pages sometimes