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I recently added an RSS feed to my personal blog, hosted on github pages, and I was astonished at just how easy it is. I wish all of my friends just had blogs a

• Jorengarenar 5y ago
  To highlight how easy it is to add RSS feed to your Jekyll blog: it's a matter of enabling one plugin
  • vanilla_nut 5y ago
    Precisely. For anybody else who'd like to do something similar, I followed the guidance of this post: https://dzhavat.github.io/2020/01/19/adding-an-rss-feed-to-github-pages.html https://dzhavat.github.io/2020/01/19/adding-an-rss-feed-to-g... Though it turns out a few of those config parameters were already in my config, so it's even less work than described here. It is worth noting, for the pedantic among us, that this feed is technically Atom, not RSS. But as some other commenters have posted out in this very post, most clients seem to treat those interchangeably these days and honestly I don't really understand the difference myself.
• jamesvandyne 5y ago
  You may like micro.blog. It’s a blog/rss based social network. You can create a blog with them or import an existing RSS feed (what I do). It’s all chronological. And since it’s “just rss”, you can use different apps to use it like Instagram or Twitter.
  • vanilla_nut 5y ago
    This seems like the only kind of social network I'd be on board with at this point, thanks for sharing!
  • jarcane 5y ago
    ... you ever see a project and realize it's exactly the one you've had knocking around your brain for ages and just never had time to get to?