PREACH! 🙌
Why Everyone Should Still Use an #RSS Reader in 2026
https://lifehacker.com/tech/why-everyone-should-still-use-an-rss-reader-in-2026?utm_medium=RSS
> Looking for an RSS reader? These are the best options, and how they work.
PREACH! 🙌
Why Everyone Should Still Use an #RSS Reader in 2026
https://lifehacker.com/tech/why-everyone-should-still-use-an-rss-reader-in-2026?utm_medium=RSS
> Looking for an RSS reader? These are the best options, and how they work.
Looking for more news sources and blogs to follow via RSS feed reader. Requirements: no Substack, no AI, no corporate bootlicking, no articles about tech unless it’s subversive. Things I’m interested in: international news, joyful weirdness, animal science, anti-fascism, Indigenous news, music and musicians. Already following Unicorn Riot, Doctorow, Sinker, 404 (meh), and ProPublica. #RSS #HiveMind #AskFedi #news
Looking for more news sources and blogs to follow via RSS feed reader. Requirements: no Substack, no AI, no corporate bootlicking, no articles about tech unless it’s subversive. Things I’m interested in: international news, joyful weirdness, animal science, anti-fascism, Indigenous news, music and musicians. Already following Unicorn Riot, Doctorow, Sinker, 404 (meh), and ProPublica. #RSS #HiveMind #AskFedi #news
The interactions we’re used to having on #socialmedia arose BECAUSE of the affordances of social media — the good ones and the bad ones.
Efforts to envision the NEXT thing take for granted that it needs to look like the CURRENT thing, ignoring how we socialized online BEFORE ~2008 when social stormed into all our lives. I think we need to rediscover pre-2008 web tech and rebuild a social web that routes around #bigtech.
The most exciting thing to me about #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse is that they also connect #blogs, #RSS, and #indieweb social mentions to #socialmedia in an open, interoperable way.
Frustrating, though, that mainstream users tend to ignore noncommercial solutions that aren't aggressively trying to attract them, especially when the onboarding experience is so confusing to newbies. Even if our tech platforms are ready for prime time, the human networks are only early adopter types.
My periodic reminder to blogs and news outlets that, if you have #RSS or Atom feeds, you should remember to exclude those URLs from your frontend-based verifications.
If you want to control traffic on machine-to-machine endpoints, use standard throttling and rate limiting - not CAPTCHAs nor other frontend challenges.
My Miniflux list needs to be periodically pruned from dead links because, as websites increasingly add Anubis, Cloudflare challenges, hCAPTCHA etc. to their pages, they often forget that they also have some RSS paths to maintain - and that aggregators break if you return some random HTML to them.
One of my favourite #feeds in my #RSS reader is #Wikipedia's "On this day..." #feed. It always includes something curious to read and delivers several deep #rabbitholes per week. Highly recommended!
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=onthisday&feedformat=rss
One of my favourite #feeds in my #RSS reader is #Wikipedia's "On this day..." #feed. It always includes something curious to read and delivers several deep #rabbitholes per week. Highly recommended!
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=onthisday&feedformat=rss
My periodic reminder to blogs and news outlets that, if you have #RSS or Atom feeds, you should remember to exclude those URLs from your frontend-based verifications.
If you want to control traffic on machine-to-machine endpoints, use standard throttling and rate limiting - not CAPTCHAs nor other frontend challenges.
My Miniflux list needs to be periodically pruned from dead links because, as websites increasingly add Anubis, Cloudflare challenges, hCAPTCHA etc. to their pages, they often forget that they also have some RSS paths to maintain - and that aggregators break if you return some random HTML to them.
The internet has massively sucked for quite a while now. @pluralistic calls this Enshittification. Let's talk about it and some ways we can get around it. In this installment I talk about cutting the noise of the internet with an RSS Reader. https://deadbeatguitarist.ca/2026/01/13/fight-against-the-enshittification-of-the-internet-with-an-rss-reader/ #enshittification #rss #fluentreader #takebacktheinternet #rssguard #linux #news #coreydoctorow #rssreaders #bigtech #techbros #mastodon
The internet has massively sucked for quite a while now. @pluralistic calls this Enshittification. Let's talk about it and some ways we can get around it. In this installment I talk about cutting the noise of the internet with an RSS Reader. https://deadbeatguitarist.ca/2026/01/13/fight-against-the-enshittification-of-the-internet-with-an-rss-reader/ #enshittification #rss #fluentreader #takebacktheinternet #rssguard #linux #news #coreydoctorow #rssreaders #bigtech #techbros #mastodon
This being Fedi, I don't need to convince anyone here that #RSS is a total dreamboat.
But did you know that you can spruce up an RSS feed to look nice in a web browser?
Here's how I went about doing this over the weekend: https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/testing-new-rss-feed-system
This being Fedi, I don't need to convince anyone here that #RSS is a total dreamboat.
But did you know that you can spruce up an RSS feed to look nice in a web browser?
Here's how I went about doing this over the weekend: https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/testing-new-rss-feed-system
I'm looking for any feedback - good or bad - on a website I've put together to serve as a doorway to the small web for anyone who feels a bit trapped by infinite scroll. Social media has evolved, but bookmarks have kind of stayed the same. Hopefully this will close that gap for some, by helping people stay connected with their favourite self-hosted creators. Link: quietportal.com #indieweb #smallweb #rss #blogging #personalweb
Some people say it takes too much time and effort to curate a feed (RSS, Mastodon etc). They want a recommendation algorithm like every other big platform.
I say, having a recommendation algorithm takes way more time and effort in the long run, because you end up wasting many magnitudes more time lost in addictive feeds, and the huge effort comes in the form of not being able to stop yourself.
