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What's a good place to discover high-quality RSS feeds these days?

by mmahemoff 2y ago

freetonik 2y ago
I'm curating a collection here https://minifeed.net/blogs/ https://minifeed.net/blogs/
- dqv 2y ago
  Aw dang, looks like I can't subscribe to it in my feed reader. Still, this is a great collection. Thanks for sharing
  - freetonik 2y ago
    Do you mean to subscribe to the whole collection, one RSS feed for all the blogs in my list? I mean, I guess I can build that feature, but it's gonna be quite a firehose.
    - onli 2y ago
      Not sure what parent meant, but the right way should be an opml file with the feeds, which the feed reader then can import. But maybe you are offering that already?
      - freetonik 2y ago
        Ah, sorry, that makes perfect sense. Not yet, but I plan to implement this soon.
      - freetonik 2y ago
        Here, I quickly put together an OPML generator: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml
        dqv 2y ago
        Whoa, you did not have to do that! Thank you so much :)
    - drdec 2y ago
      My impression was that they wanted to be notified of new blogs via RSS, not the content of the blogs. But I could be wrong
charles_f 2y ago
I'm just picking the rss for the links I like on hn
quinto_quarto 2y ago
i made a directory of indie creators from across the web here, which i'm not sure what to do with: https://fanzine.world/ https://fanzine.world/ I believe you can RSS most of them. certainly all the substacks.
nelsonfigueroa 2y ago
I added one of the random RSS feeds from https://indieblog.page/rss https://indieblog.page/rss. I’ve discovered cool blogs this way that I now subscribe to directly.
- freetonik 2y ago
  That's a very cool idea!
- linhns 2y ago
  Awesome job!
CharlesW 2y ago
One tip: Every Substack has a feed, which is a nice alternative to having everything dropped in your email in-box. You just append "/feed" to the end of a newsletter URL, e.g. https://simonw.substack.com/feed https://simonw.substack.com/feed.
- freetonik 2y ago
  I wonder if Substack would at some point remove or at least cripple this feature. Right now it seems the full-content RSS is served.
- marginalia_nu 2y ago
  I've been doing adjacent work for my search engine[1], and found substack to annoyingly be one of the sites that employ bot mitigation for its RSS endpoints. If you fetch at a very low rate it works fine, but for these types of bulk retrieval. Substack is also a bit of a pain to integrate with because they have zero useful contact information and direct all inquiries to a chatbot that is beyond useless, makes it so you have to guess how they want you to interact with their servers since there is nobody to answer questions. [1] Preview of my take of the idea: https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/113670235590972416 https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/113670235590972416
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rixed 2y ago
Create a reader like Artemis and wait for people to upload their own bookmarks?
aharris6 2y ago
I am working on a site, which is very pre-beta at this point, that works to help solve this problem using bluesky's "starter pack" model. Basically sharing curated lists of good follows. Give it a look at https://feed.computer https://feed.computer if that seems interesting!
hombre_fatal 2y ago
Heh, that was my question too once I signed up. I think OP’s project is a nice place to potentially have some default feeds. Both for purposes but also because it’s nice to see some interesting content once you sign up. Maybe even just major news items.
8organicbits 2y ago
I think the answer to this question _should_ be blogrolls, as in, you discover new feeds from the feeds you already like. We lost that when social media absorbed the social graph, but blogs and feeds are in vogue again. I built a site around programmatic blogrolls (sites that publish an OPML file of their recommendations using a specific format). I collected a bunch of initial subscription lists[1], which are curated lists, "planets", and web rings. The I spider out from there. The aggregate list is too diverse, and definitely has some low quality content, but connections between blogs are useful for discovery [2]. [1] https://github.com/robalexdev/rss-blogroll-network/blob/main/feeds.yaml https://github.com/robalexdev/rss-blogroll-network/blob/main... [2] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-ff6ccbb786cfb42caf7e388f185a56d3/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-ff6cc...

What's a good place to discover high-quality RSS feeds these days?

freetonik 2y ago

I'm curating a collection here https://minifeed.net/blogs/ https://minifeed.net/blogs/

dqv 2y ago
Aw dang, looks like I can't subscribe to it in my feed reader. Still, this is a great collection. Thanks for sharing
- freetonik 2y ago
  Do you mean to subscribe to the whole collection, one RSS feed for all the blogs in my list? I mean, I guess I can build that feature, but it's gonna be quite a firehose.
  - onli 2y ago
    Not sure what parent meant, but the right way should be an opml file with the feeds, which the feed reader then can import. But maybe you are offering that already?
    - freetonik 2y ago
      Ah, sorry, that makes perfect sense. Not yet, but I plan to implement this soon.
    - freetonik 2y ago
      Here, I quickly put together an OPML generator: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml
      - dqv 2y ago
        Whoa, you did not have to do that! Thank you so much :)
  - drdec 2y ago
    My impression was that they wanted to be notified of new blogs via RSS, not the content of the blogs. But I could be wrong

charles_f 2y ago

I'm just picking the rss for the links I like on hn

quinto_quarto 2y ago

i made a directory of indie creators from across the web here, which i'm not sure what to do with: https://fanzine.world/ https://fanzine.world/ I believe you can RSS most of them. certainly all the substacks.

nelsonfigueroa 2y ago

I added one of the random RSS feeds from https://indieblog.page/rss https://indieblog.page/rss. I’ve discovered cool blogs this way that I now subscribe to directly.

freetonik 2y ago
That's a very cool idea!
linhns 2y ago
Awesome job!

CharlesW 2y ago

One tip: Every Substack has a feed, which is a nice alternative to having everything dropped in your email in-box. You just append "/feed" to the end of a newsletter URL, e.g. https://simonw.substack.com/feed https://simonw.substack.com/feed.

freetonik 2y ago
I wonder if Substack would at some point remove or at least cripple this feature. Right now it seems the full-content RSS is served.
marginalia_nu 2y ago
I've been doing adjacent work for my search engine[1], and found substack to annoyingly be one of the sites that employ bot mitigation for its RSS endpoints. If you fetch at a very low rate it works fine, but for these types of bulk retrieval. Substack is also a bit of a pain to integrate with because they have zero useful contact information and direct all inquiries to a chatbot that is beyond useless, makes it so you have to guess how they want you to interact with their servers since there is nobody to answer questions. [1] Preview of my take of the idea: https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/113670235590972416 https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/113670235590972416

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rixed 2y ago

Create a reader like Artemis and wait for people to upload their own bookmarks?

aharris6 2y ago

I am working on a site, which is very pre-beta at this point, that works to help solve this problem using bluesky's "starter pack" model. Basically sharing curated lists of good follows. Give it a look at https://feed.computer https://feed.computer if that seems interesting!

hombre_fatal 2y ago

Heh, that was my question too once I signed up. I think OP’s project is a nice place to potentially have some default feeds. Both for purposes but also because it’s nice to see some interesting content once you sign up. Maybe even just major news items.

8organicbits 2y ago

I think the answer to this question _should_ be blogrolls, as in, you discover new feeds from the feeds you already like. We lost that when social media absorbed the social graph, but blogs and feeds are in vogue again. I built a site around programmatic blogrolls (sites that publish an OPML file of their recommendations using a specific format). I collected a bunch of initial subscription lists[1], which are curated lists, "planets", and web rings. The I spider out from there. The aggregate list is too diverse, and definitely has some low quality content, but connections between blogs are useful for discovery [2]. [1] https://github.com/robalexdev/rss-blogroll-network/blob/main/feeds.yaml https://github.com/robalexdev/rss-blogroll-network/blob/main... [2] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-ff6ccbb786cfb42caf7e388f185a56d3/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-ff6cc...