In an effort to further curate my online experience and try to bring stuff I’m interested in directly to me without all the “noise” and effort that goes with scrolling random sites, I’m late to the party and finally trying out RSS.
I installed a reader, and so far have added some local news, local weather, alerts (e.g. FDA warnings), a few niche blogs, NASA’s APOD and news feeds, a couple of comics, and a youtube channel (only got it to work once - it seems buggy for others), a podcast, and now I’m out of ideas.
Do y’all have any favorite feeds that you follow? Or any tips about where to look / types of feeds that might be interesting?
Cory Doctorow’s blog pluralistic.net is required reading as far as I’m concerned.
You should also look into Escape Pod if you like sci-fi (just a hunch).
Back before algorithms and social media ruined the Internet, there was an RSS feed one click away on every website. Now many of them are removed or just hidden.
Close, it’s the need to drive traffic that killed it. Gotta get those clicks for advertisers.
I’ve been self-hosting an RSS feed reader and have been tying to build up a list of feeds to follow as well. It’s been a messy experience so far. Some feeds push WAY to much (like some newspapers, which will push dozens of articles a day). That drowns out some others who post only occasionally (like webcomics). Organizing the feeds seems necessary, and I’ve done poorly doing that so far.
I’ve added feeds for technical groups I’m interested in (e.g. https://blog.system76.com/rss.xml)
I find that subscribing to political commentators, bloggers, and local newspapers works best, and trying to find news feeds that allow you to filter by topic (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss or https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/rss)
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Youtube channels have RSS feeds, I also subscribe to Slashdot and a few webcomics and Neatorama.
I follow my own Lemmy feed via RSS.
This is where I find the RSS link on my page. The RSS link it generates is based on which buttons you have chosen. My current RSS feed shows posts, hiding hidden posts, to everything I’ve subscribed to, using the Hot algorithm.
Clicking the link will download an XML file for RSS, or you can just right click and “Copy Link” and that works, too.
