Posts tagged: rss

💭 A Gentle Intro to RSS

2025-05-31T01:44:36Z

Some of the best things from the old internet are still preserved with RSS. Content is shared via simple files, which means the slow-loading, ad-stuffed and tracker-filled clutter of the modern internet are mostly absent.

There aren’t any algorithms. RSS readers are wonderfully dumb. There’s no AI sifting through content to find whatever will outrage you the most. You just get new posts and mark them as read. It’s a calmer world.

With RSS I follow lots of people writing about normal people things. People blog about getting back into playing the drums, a fun book they just read, a tough problem they’re working through and the other day to day things of life. This type of content tends to get buried on social media — it doesn’t get the clicks and sell ads like fear and outrage do.

I feel like a curmudgeon, but i feel all of these things. I dont think that the new web is completely terrible, what is terrible is that the options of an algorithm ran by companies with differing goals is seemingly the only option. RSS still works, its fantastic, I personally love it, but theres only a small fraction of the internet that it reaches both ways. Few people have a reader, even fewer have a feed.

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💭 Blogroll

2025-05-27T02:33:08Z

💭 RSS is dead - YouTube

2025-02-01T02:57:59Z

Oh, this kills me to hear it. RSS is the OG way to subscribe and share content out to others. It gives you control of what you subscribe to and reminds you when new content lands on your favorite sites. It is a huge component of web 1.0 and I feel is the most decentralized social media can ever hope to be.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Harry Roberts: "📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also du...

2025-01-03T22:56:44Z

@csswizardry) — 📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also dusted off my RSS reader. Send me your feeds! Mine is at csswizardry.com/feed.xml https://csswizardry.com/feed.xml" loading="lazy">

Harry Roberts (@csswizardry)

📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also dusted off my RSS reader. Send me your feeds! Mine is at csswizardry.com/feed.xml https://csswizardry.com/feed.xml

Bluesky Social · bsky.app

Tons of cool people came out with their rss feeds here, again will need to browse more closely later.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 myRSS/personal-blogs.xml at master · sturobson/myRSS

2025-01-03T22:54:32Z

Sturobson has a ton of rss feeds here, I recognize quite a few, will definitely need to poke at some of these later.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 How to make your RSS feed pretty

2024-12-18T00:38:24Z

How to make your RSS feed pretty

Life is too short for ugly XML.

cassidoo.co

I love me some styled rss, it’s how the OG internet was made to be. You choose what you want to read and when. There is no middleman aggregator inflating the reach of things they want you to see or suffocating things against them. It’s just you and your internet friends.

Cassidy’s Styled rss #

Cassidy has a quite lovely and easy to read rss feed, with an open source style sheet, that is part of her open source blog template for astro blahg, love that name by the way!

Dave Rupert’s Feed #

I first learned of styled rss feeds from shoptalkshow.com, specifically from Dave Rupert.

Dave uses a pretty bog standard styled rss feed with pretty-feed-v3. This repo is probably the best place to start if you are looking to style your rss feed.

https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-feed-v3.xsl

My RSS Feed #

My feed comes from my static site generator markata, a plugins all the way down static site generator written in python, made for customizing, lacking just about any and all docs so you are on your own.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 How can I add my YouTube videos via RSS? - SocialBee Help Docu...

2024-04-03T01:42:29Z

External Link

help.socialbee.com

YouTube makes finding rss feeds way too hard. Hats off to them for still supporting it, allowing you to find content outside the algorithm, and consuming content you asked for. But i had no idea you had to search the source code to get it.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts