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?

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Close, it’s the need to drive traffic that killed it. Gotta get those clicks for advertisers.

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    OpenRSS is a cool site that aims to produce RSS feeds for sites without them at no cost (some conditions apply, e.g. no account-walled/paywalled sites may be requested).

    There’s also the Feedbro add-on for Firefox (and other browsers) that can be used to check if a website has a RSS feed buried somewhere to add to your reader.

    If you’d like to keep up with some non-commercial music, you could check out the Editor’s Picks from ccMixter. Here’s the direct feed link.

    In case of follow-up questions:

    • Mobile Apps: personally I’m mostly using Feeder on Android these days. I like to be able to see a lot of feed entries at once and this works best for me. I’ve tried apps like Read You and Nunti, but they weren’t showing as much as I wanted.
      • Worth noting though, Nunti may be worth trying for its unique feature that tries to adjust your feeds to surface articles/entries that may be of more interest to you with offline systems.
    • Desktop/laptop: I’m still sort of searching on this one. For the moment I use Thunderbird, but it’s not RSS-focused so it’s more than I want from a reader.
    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      This is promising! Thanks.

      I’m using Feeder too. I haven’t tried any others, but I remember someone on lemmy recommended it once before, and it seems perfectly good to me.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Youtube channels have RSS feeds, I also subscribe to Slashdot and a few webcomics and Neatorama.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’m late to the party

    26 years and 5 days late, to be precise!

    But really more like 20 years, which was when it took off as the plumbing of the blogosphere (AKA the last form of social media that was arguably healthy for all concerned).

    Or in fact you’re not late at all given that you probably listen to podcasts.

    PS: to add a useful tool recommendation to this otherwise ruminative contribution: RSSBox

  • InfiniteHench@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    I have a few hundred feeds across topics that I’ve collected over the years, but I’m gonna guess you don’t want to see my entire OPML. Want to share some topics you’re into? That should help recommendations a lot

    Also, a general tip: Most decent feed readers can sniff out a feed if you paste a website into their search box. Next time you’re surfing the regular web and find a site you like, try tossing it into your reader to follow it from then on

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      I’ve been having decent luck adding topics that I like (e.g. Star Trek), but I guess what I’m most curious to find are types of feeds that translate well to RSS. Like, weather alerts, podcasts, webcomics, etc.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      Ah, very nice! I’ve heard you can follow any Mastodon account via RSS too, but I haven’t tried that out yet. I’m glad to see RSS is alive and well in the fediverse.

  • gkaklas@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I don’t have any specific feeds, and of course it depends on your interests, but I just wanted to recommend to keep an eye out for feeds during your everyday browsing

    When I see an interesting link on Lemmy to a news article or a blog, I just look at a couple of more articles on that site, and if it seems interesting I subscribe to it! 😅😉 (I can always unsubscribe later if it turns out that I don’t like it). I started using RSS a few days ago, and I’ve collected quite a few blogs and news sites this way

    (Btw also keep in mind, that some news sites provide feeds for specific tags, you don’t have to subscribe to everything that gets posted)

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      3 days ago

      The tags for specific feeds seem to be really important for news sites. I tried adding one without it, and it completely overwhelmed my feed with a billion posts per day. I removed it in less than 24 hrs, lol

  • NegativeNull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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)