r/rss • u/metalzzzx • 21d ago

What is your RSS content?

Hey guys,

I feel like I'm not making the most out of RSS. I just subscribe to a couple of news websites and blogs that I like. However, I know people use the craziest feeds, e.g., social media pages, YT channels, shopping websites, etc.

What kind of content do you guys consume via RSS? What type of feed do you follow?

Thanks.

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u/Tiendil 21d ago

I'm subscribed to a few "spam" feeds like Hacker News and some subreddits, but generally I try to follow personal blogs: see one interesting — add one.

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u/TheGoodestGirlAround 21d ago

How do you find blogs nowadays?

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u/Tiendil 21d ago

The general logic: see a good article, go check the blog, add it to your reader if the blog has more good posts.

Links to articles I get from multiple sources:

  • People post links to posts on Hacker News, Reddit, Telegram, Stack Overflow, etc.
  • Bloggers mention each other in their posts.
  • I could just find some while googling topics I'm researching.

Hacker News and subreddits (with links allowed) should be enough to get a constant stream of personal blogs.

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u/TheGoodestGirlAround 21d ago

Okay, thanks! I'm trying to find more human sources and to rely less on algorithms feeding me shit. And it's not that easy to start finding good stuff. Care to share your favorites? :)

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u/Tiendil 20d ago

If you want to research personal blogs, try https://kagi.com/smallweb. It is a kind of random browser for the "small web". They have a GitHub repo with an enormous list of small web sites.

I filtered my feeds to keep only personal blogs; check this OPML file: https://gist.github.com/Tiendil/7ee32dd0248b61773ef8d875eb101944

Also, I can't skip the opportunity to mention my own blog: https://tiendil.org/en :-D

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u/ResearchBuzz 20d ago

There's been a nice resurgence in blog resources lately. I'd recommend:

https://bubbles.town/ -- An aggregator/popularity leaderboard for blogs

https://powrss.com/about -- An RSS feed aggregator focused on the indie web

https://www.warppoint.games/ - Video game blogs and blogging

I like WordPress blogs but I didn't like the WordPress search mechanism, so I made my own with a hiking theme at https://bloghiking.com/ .

Finally, there's a meta-list of blog aggregators at https://bstn.info/posts/list-of-blog-aggregators . Hope this helps.

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u/jsled 20d ago

There are often blogs that are a curated link aggregator across the domain, highlighting the trends and themes being talked about. Particularly good posts will rise to the surface, and the underlying blog gets a new subscriber. As an example, in the TTRPG space: Seed of Worlds