I still have yet to implement it properly on my own website but RSS is very interesting. I initially didn’t take too much interest because I thought “Why would I need to?” which was just wrong. It’s a very useful tool that can help you stay informed and support smaller blogs or other things that interest you.
RSS feeds will usually automatically update with the content a blog or whatever publishes it. It’s very useful when you are talking about update notifications. Take the Home Assistant blog as an example. Every major release is a blog post and is sent to an atom feed. Now, I can actually learn about the update when it’s released and I can stop forgetting to check for them. Of course it’s really dependent on if you care about it. Do you personally care about a blog or something else enough to be notified about changes? I would say the majority of people would say yes but if you were like me and just didn’t use it before, I implore you to try it. There are so many options.
Namely options in readers. There are lots of self hosted RSS servers which act as readers but you don’t need to own a server or set something like that up to enjoy using RSS. Quality readers will be cross platform and maybe even sync across those devices without the need of a server you psychically or virtually own. For example my most favorite reader right now is NetNewsWire. A popular one with a couple of nice features. One of them being iCloud syncing. Without buying an account on a popular feed website or some other service, you can sync your feeds to iCloud and access those feeds on a variety of devices. Not all Apple devices are supported and some clients have been able to support more platforms but none of them are as clean, well made and reliable as NetNewsWire is.
There are some other nice features, it supports handoff which allows you to keep reading on a Mac or iPad as long as the app was open. It also comes with a Mac safari extension which will try to detect an RSS feed and clicking on the icon will bring you to the app so you can subscribe to that feed.
In general, I have been able to keep an eye on about a dozen feeds with various schedules of updates. All of which are blogs that I would normally be checking anyway, it’s saving the hassle, it’s telling me about new things every day and it’s very clean when reading.
If this hasn’t convinced you then I don’t know what else to add to help but at least try it once. Add a couple of feeds, leave the app installed for a week, use a widget and just wait. You might appreciate what any reader can present to you in a clean environment where you can actually keep up with your favorite interests!