What RSS feeds do you follow and why?
What RSS feeds do you follow and why?
I've been trying to lean back into using RSS again after realizing I shouldn't let the algorithms decide what I see. What RSS feeds do you people follow and why? Any recommendations? Do you tend to follow the RSS feeds of Lemmy as well?
I suggest you add an RSS feed detector to your browser so that you know if the page/site you're viewing has an RSS feed.
Grab them as you go.
Yap, for example RSSHub-Radar works fine for me. Would you share with us any good suggestions, please?
I'm not sure about good suggestions, per se!
I have two on Firefox - I could not choose between them and never deleted the one I favoured - "List Feeds" (updated 2023) and "Want my RSS" (updated 2024). One looks lousy and gives multiple false positives sometimes, but the other doesn't detect so well and looks pretty.
Ironically FF, back in the day, had its own RSS feed detector built in and Moz 'deleted' it because no-one used it.
I haven't looked for replacements in a while. I periodically look for replacements for my add-ons.
A whole bunch, including one that contains this very post. Currently using Feedbro in Firefox.
The eclipsing of RSS by corporate social media is such a tragedy. Obviously there are a number of causes but my personal pet peeve is the name itself. What terrible judgement to brand the thing "RSS"! Only a bunch of out-of-touch geeks could have not foreseen that this awful jargony acronym would strike most people as impossibly technical and foreboding.
It should have been called "webfeed", which is what it is.
nowadays sites usually dont provide rss, so you need something to convert webpage to rss, like rssbrige or rsshub, even rssproxy sometimes. rsshub & rssbrige also have categories/catalogs you can check if anything interests you. i wouldnt suggest follow forums with rss, because they tend to update very frequently essentially overwhelm your feeds, but i followed several cat related just for fun.
https://docs.rsshub.app/guide https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/
Yeah, I've been using OpenRSS to get the RSS feed of e.g. APNews, but it's such a sad state of affairs that it feels like RSS is disappearing
I subscribe to ~100 feeds but I have no idea what you're into so dumping the list on you won't help.
Instead, check out these directories that list RSS feeds by topic:
I have feeds for world news, science, privacy, tech. Recently, I started following a few local government departments via Nitter. Its pretty easy to do.
Happy to post what I have.
I keep track of a bunch of subreddits that dont exist here.
That said, its really getting bad for bots there. Even formerly tightly regulated ones like space are bot trash now.
Side question: What do you use as an RSS reading?
I'm interested too (I have a teader, but no feeds), what about a community for sharing RSS feeds?
Cool idea!
Webcomics
My torrent tracker because releases :)
seventy-odd webcomics and a dozen or so blogs
A bunch of software development blogs that I've collected (~40). I'd love to share a list but I can't find an easy way to export them from Feedly :(
Related: what are the best rss readers out there? I've been mostly happy with Feedly but I'd really like something that is:
- FOSS
- No login/account, all data local
- Android app
- Follow RSS feeds, sort into categories
- Save for later
- Save favourites
- Tag categories
- Import/export subscriptions
- Read full text locally in the app (don't need to open the website)
- Supports text to speech
I also self host FreshRSS. Was super easy to setup. I don't expose it, so when away from home I use wire guard to connect to my home network.
I use Feeder https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/
The only thing in your list it doesn't do is text to speech and once in a while I do have to go to the website but that only for very long articles.
It has a keyword filter which is probably my favourite feature.
Ahh yes, the walled garden trap.
I self-host a copy of FreshRSS which does most of those things. No Android app but the PWA works.
Whether you can read the full text in the app or not usually depends on whether the source provides a feed with the full text in it - changing your reader app won't make much difference.
Like others below, I use FreshRSS for the server component. I have the Read You app on my phone which syncs with it, and makes for a pleasant reading experience.
Webcomics.
Disappointingly, a lot of good webcomics use Instagram or Twitter and don't have RSS access.
Nitter should be able to convert a Twitter feed to rss. I do this with a number of Twitter accounts I follow. I'm not sure how a webcomic will look in rss.
Mostly webcomics and a few Dreamwidth pages.
It looks promising but keeps crashing when I try to open an article 🙁
I’ve never really seen the point.
I have arpund 100 or so. Anything your interested in?
The most productive one is hackaday.
List of my own saved posts and comments.
I haven't used RSS since once a long time ago when I confused it for CSS when I was trying to figure out how to change a website I didn't control's layout automatically in my browser.
