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 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.

  • kotnik@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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.
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    1 year ago

    …and to any of the feeds actually contain an article ? or just links back to website, so they get pageview ?

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      1 year ago

      That’s pretty standard behavior of RSS feeds nowadays, unfortunately. It makes sense; if you don’t actually go to their website they don’t make any money from ad views. How else are they supposed to pay the bills?

      There are some RSS apps that will actually go and fetch the text from the website for you but that’s usually a subscription service, and it may or may not look pretty depending on how the website is formatted.

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            1 year ago

            …wait till you hear about the people that write for a hobby.

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              1 year ago

              Ah yes, so because SOME of them do it for free, that means NONE of them should try to get paid for their valuable time. Makes perfect sense.

              Let’s see your list of RSS feeds. How many of them do it for free, and how many expect to be paid?