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If you're looking for a diverse startpage for your #web browser with lots of content from the #IndieWeb, here are a few sites that I think work well as a go-to when you're craving content, with a small chance of ending up #DoomScrolling.

powRSS - #RSS feed aggregator with categories
https://powrss.com/index.html

Blogroll Club (A Blog Directory) - Alphbetical list of interesting blogs
https://blogroll.club/

Ye Olde Blogroll - A categorised list of blogs/RSS feeds
https://blogroll.org/

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The Stupidly Simple Open Media Network

A common database of media metadata exchanged by RSS in and out, using open industrial standards and neutral unbranded widgets.

Is anyone doing something like this now, and how is your project different?

There are many aggregators of news (eg http://daveriver.scripting.com/, or http://ignoregon.com) but they aggregate with whole #RSS feeds not tags, and new tag feeds cannot be created out of them. Closed-source project #vodpod works by tag only as a premium feature.

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What should be closed? And what should never be?

A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. Let’s start with a basic liberal framework:

“Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.”

Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position many of us think we agree on. Yet when we look at how our technology, and by extension, our society, is being built, that balance is totally out of whack. Today, more and more of life is CLOSED:

Closed apps.

Closed data.

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Just tried to subscribe to the RSS feed for https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html. Huh, seems that I can't. Why? Because they're sitting behind Cloudflare, and Cloudflare demands that you prove that you're human in order to subscribe to it. As my feedreader isn't human it struggles somewhat here.

Turns out this has been going on for a while and it's impacting a lot of sites and open standards software.

https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users

#RSS#Cloudflare

I'm not communicating enough about the https://artfeed.org project, and as a result there aren't many registrations. So I've done away with the invitation system and opened up the site to everyone.

Artfeed is a simple way to follow the work of photographers and artists via their #rss feeds, with an interface dedicated to images.

You can also add your own #feed to the site and create your profile, like mine here: https://artfeed.org/@atlza
A great way to share your images and likes!