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I'd like to again, but I stopped because I didn't have a good (read: worked in the way I wanted) client, and not everything served it anyway.

I paid for Feedbin for quite a while, but it had too many issues/missing features. I replaced it with nothing, unfortunately.

(I think at the time it was one of those Sod it, I'll write my own moments, and of course never got around to it.)

Admittedly mostly as a result of no longer using it, but currently the only source I read regularly (by email) is Levine's Money Stuff. If I could get his column and some YouTube 'subscriptions' by RSS, I'd be in.

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Youtube channels do have RSS feeds, so if you want, you can subscribe to all the rss feeds for all the channels you follow.

I don't think there's an rss feed for "a selection of new things that youtube expects that you would actually watch, from the channels you follow, which youtube would list on the main page or whatever for you", so you can get exactly the same things,

but if you just want to subscribe-through-rss to all the channels you subscribe-through-youtube , you can.

You can also subscribe to a youtube playlist, if a channel has a playlist you are interested in, but which is only a minority of their videos.

typo : the "so you can get exactly the same things," should read "so you can't get exactly the same things," (as in, can't get exactly the same (distribution of) things you would if you were to just view the homepage)

I was aware of that, but I thought it was removed recently-ish (last couple of years)?

Will have to check that, that'd be great.

Still works perfectly. Even if they'd stop, there are projects like RSS Hub to solve this problem.

> but if you just want to subscribe-through-rss to all the channels you subscribe-through-youtube , you can.

Do you mean there is a unified feed that list all new entries in my subscribed channels? Or that one need to add a seperate rss-feed for every followed channel?

I only know the second option, and it kinda sucks to maintain multiple places. Would be really great to have just one place to to that.

AFAIK, only the second option. Depending on your workflow, I see two 'solutions'.

1 - If you are on mobile app, subscribe to the channel on youtube. Them every few days, check your subscriptions on YT and add them on your RSS reader, while unsubscribing from YT.

2 - On desktop, many RSS readers have extensions to follow the current page, so you could use an extension to subscribe. Some mobile apps might let you share a link to it, and them subscribe there.

The inconvenient thing about that is, it could be more cumbersome if for example, you sit on your couch and want to just cast some video to the TV. On a RSS reader you might need to click the link, which will open on YT app, and then cast.

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