What is RSS?

RSS is a free, open standard for following newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and news sites without giving anyone your email address or installing yet another app. Every newsletter on Groupmail Community has its own RSS feed — paste the feed URL into any reader app and new issues land there as soon as they're published.

Why use it?

• Read in one place — your reader app, not your inbox.
• No tracking, no algorithms, no recommendations. You see every issue, in order.
• Unsubscribe by deleting the feed. The publisher never sees your email.
• Works offline once issues are downloaded into your reader app.

How to use a feed

1. Pick a reader app. Popular ones: Feedly, Inoreader, Feedbin, NetNewsWire (free, Apple platforms), The Old Reader, NewsBlur.
2. On a publisher's archive page click "Subscribe via RSS" and copy the feed URL.
3. Paste it into your reader app's "Add feed" / "Subscribe" / "+" button. Most readers also accept the publisher page URL directly and find the feed for you.

For the curious

RSS has been around since 1999. It powers most podcast subscriptions you already use. The feed is just a small XML file the reader fetches every so often. Nothing magic.

aboutfeeds.com has a longer, equally plain-language explainer if you want more.