Excuse me for being a bad techie, but.... Wtf is rss? I've been around since before dsl, and rss has never been something I've researched or understood.

I get that it's a feed, i think? Is it like a file that is a subscription protocol?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

It stands for "Really Simple Syndication" (I think).

Its a standard for sending updates to a website, but its most commonly used to aggregate stuff like posts and articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think of it as the internet coming to you rather than you going to it.

You subscribe to updates on a website and it intelligently pulls new content/articles. Its pretty neat! Lots of clients such as Outlook/Thunderbird have built in rss support and lots of websites provide them.

Here is one such software Tiny Tiny RSS that I self host (but most dont self host from what I understand).

Get started today (if your interested): https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/05/thunderbird-rss-feeds-guide-favorite-content-to-the-inbox/