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Truthfully I have never used RSS, beyond having to support it in a piece of software. I've never really understood the appeal and I've never been able to make it fit into my life.

Maybe I'm missing the point, I never read news or other such things, so perhaps there's just no use case for me.

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In simplest terms, do you want to remember to visit 20 different sites each day or just remember to visit your RSS reader which aggregates all those sites?

There are other things you can use it for--including being the behind the schemes technology for podcasts. But, yeah, that was the primary not behind the scenes use case.

There's been a decline in low volume individual sites and a lot of people find sites like this one, Twitter, etc. provide sufficient discoverability for their needs in any case.

You can use it to check for software updates in Github releases

edit: technically in Atom format but functionally it's the same, just add /releases.atom

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