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by theshrike79 477 days ago
RSS still exists, it's just hidden. Like you can just add any Youtube channel page to an RSS reader and get a feed for it - instead of visiting youtube's algorithm-generated front page.

I just a month ago started moving all my feeds to a self-hosted FreshRSS installation. It lets me create feeds from pages without RSS using XPath[0] or CSS selectors to pick the elements.

I also did a handful of Go applications that generate and/or modify existing feeds to be actually usable instead of just the title. I run those from cron daily and add the generated feeds to FreshRSS

And with FreshRSS I can filter out the "XXX (YC xx) is hiring" posts from HN feeds automatically :)

[0] https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/