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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

i don't get why people use web services for rss, it can be done completely clientside, that's.. kind of the whole point of rss..

[–] uzay@infosec.pub 39 points 1 week ago

To keep it synchronized between devices

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

No, it isn't the whole point. The point is to curate our own news. And a separate question is how to browse the results. If you use two devices, you might want a server side solution. Maybe. There are many reasonable setups.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

You could want to have multiple clients in sync.

Also a web service could be fetching 24/7 and perform classification algorithms before serving to the client that will only connect a few times a day.

[–] jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

In my case (not necessarily your case, of course), the cheapest selling-point has become that I already have a browser open for almost everything else, so that's one less thing to install and check in on. But it's also easier to keep up to date reading when individual computers have problems and usually has a nicer API for scripting, if you need that sort of thing.

[–] ominouslemon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Try a good one such as Inoreader or NewsBlur, you'll never look back