I’d like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content.
What do you do to find these kinds of RSS feeds?
I like https://ooh.directory/ - you can find sites you like by category, and it’s all oriented around RSS, so you know the feeds work and are up to date. You can even follow this site using RSS to see when they add new sites or categories!
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.
A similar site for YouTube channels: https://www.favoree.io
Ok, this website is super cool. I’ll definitely spend some time exploring it
When I find a website I find interesting, I usually use the firefox addon feedbro to find an rss feed in the site. I create folders based on domains or website type to help categorize things. It has worked for a lot more websites than I expected.
Really useful, thanks!
This is how I manage it:
- Usually I add feeds of blogs I find out from other aggregators (people posting links, HackerNews, Lobsters, Kotke.org, etc).
- This website categorizes blogs, I found some really good gems there, so I follow their feed.
- My RSS reader of choice (Inoreader) can show trending topics from feeds I am not following.
I generally go to a website and if I like the content, I look for an RSS icon. If I can’t find one, I’ll browse to either [domain]/rss, [domain]/rss.xml, [domain]/feed or [domain]/feed.xml, because most websites that support RSS will have an XML file at that location. This has worked for every site I’ve tried it on so far, except for Genius’ website.
There is an addon for that! I use this: WANT MY RSS. This puts an rss icon in the url bar, if there is an rss feed available for the current website. Just click on the icon, and you are subscribed, if you set up your reader beforehand!
With my RSS app (Feeder) I can punch in the URLs of most publications and follow them easily. Not every one is updated though
The way I find feeds is fairly simple:
- Browse Lemmy/Hacker News/Reddit or just let friends send me articles.
- When I find an interesting article check the feed and see if the topics seem interesting.
- If it seems somewhat interesting subscribe.
I tend to subscribe fairly easily, if it looks like it may be interesting I add it. But I am also fairly quick to unsubscribe if I find that I am not enjoying a feed.
This isn’t the fastest system but does build up a collection of interesting feeds over time. And if you are starting from scratch you can just lower your “interesting” threshold to subscribe to more quicker, then as your collection grows and grows in quality you can prune them.
Cool!
@amitten I mostly checked what I followed on social media, then add to RSS the websites where possible.
…how are we supposed to figure out what you find “interesting”?
My question was not to ask for you to find something that’s interesting to me. My question was to ask how do you personally go about finding interesting (to you) RSS feeds. Tools or methods was what I was looking for. For example, see @redshift@lemmy.ml and their reply to this post.
I usually find that adding a website/blog that I visit frequently (i.e. find interesting) to my RSS reader works pretty well.
The idea of my question is to ask how one goes about this discovery of finding these interesting blogs.
usually once you get into a hobby or a field that’s interesting for you, you’ll just stumble upon them. either someone from a community will recommend a website directly, or you’ll notice that people link to a particular website often when discussing things, or it gets mentioned in a Youtube video about the topic, or it’ll simply pop up in your search results. you can find bunch of interesting stuff by, well, being interested in stuff.
I’ve been posting articles that I find interesting that I think other people might enjoy over on my instance at @news I try to stay away from political posting because subreddits quickly became echo chambers with politics and I don’t want to deal with that lol.
I say come on over and check out the stuff I’m posting, if you find it interesting… I believe most of the sources I am posting have RSS feeds you can subscribe to.
Also as a follow up @amitten, turns out you can take a kbin magazine and turn it into a RSS feed. So technically you can subscribe to my news magazine from my instance with this: https://fediverse.boo/rss?magazine=news
I had no idea! I’m not sure how if I want RSS with lemmy/kbin. I might not want the noise in the RSS feed, you know? Just highly curated interesting stuff.
Yup! You can also subscribe to users and specific domains posted on an instance as well:
https://fediverse.boo/rss?magazine=news https://fediverse.boo/rss?domain=bbc.com https://fediverse.boo/rss?user=lohrunSo the first link would give you an RSS feed of my news magazine, the second link would give you an rss feed of any post from my instance that had bbc.com linked as the main post article, and the third link is an rss feed of all the stuff I post as a user.
Obviously it doesn’t have to be my instance you use either, you can also do https://kbin.social/rss?magazine=news for other instances as well! I’m not sure if lemmy has rss support though. It’s kind of a cool “hidden feature” that you can use to curate a RSS feed off of already curated content.
I use Feedly, they have a decent search function to add more feeds to my list
