That was my reason for asking. I don’t know anything about RSS for torrenting. But usually people asking, I want something for ‘other purposes’… it means either pirating things or lewd stuff. 😉 But this isn’t the case here.

Back in the day, I’ve used RSS and Atom feeds for my favorite 10 news sites and 20-30 blogs I was reading regularly. The way I got those feeds was: I’d go to my favorite websites and have a look in the top right of the page or at the bottom, and they’d link their feed somewhere. I think at some point firefox had a feature to show some kind of symbol in the location bar, when a site had a feed.

But times have changed. Websites stopped having RSS feeds. RSS readers vanished. And no one writes proper blogs anymore. Maybe a trending story on medium.com Recently I’ve seen influencers advertise their newsletter… Which is a way more medieval thing in my eyes.

I’ve stopped because I was reading too much news and articles and wasting too much time. But I’m still using it for podcasts and maybe I’m going to pick it up again. My consumption of media has changed anyways. Today, I waste my time on Lemmy. And read news here. But I have heard the word ‘RSS’ come up more often nowadays. Seems to be on the rise again. But I wouldn’t know how people use it as of today.