[kazinator]

I use it only when (very rarely) looking for something on Craigslist.

Oh, wait; doh! I forgot the twits got rid of it some years ago, impairing the hell out of the usability of that site.

RSS is useful in the following way: the reader is vaguely structured like an e-mail box, where you have folders representing various feeds. You can dismiss items you've already seen, just like marking e-mail read.

New items are similar to new e-mails. You get some status visuals on the folders like new items unread with a count.

Almost a decade ago, also, I used a certain RSS feed program on an android phone to automatically download news podcasts, and listen to them while cycling. How that works is that the RSS items contain URLs of media files like mp3. Those get downloaded and played. Instead of going into some streaming site or app to get the latest news, the thing is fetching them for you, making them available locally in its UI. The items expire automatically. It made sense with poor mobile networks and data plans; it would sync while you're on Wi-Fi and then you have the programs there when you're on the road without using mobile data.