kerstin altendorfJul 8, 2023
Calishat

Okay, y'all. I've taken what I've learned while using #RSS over the last 23+ years and made a 4,000 word, information-packed, free, ad-free article:

- What is RSS?
- Finding and Using Site-Based RSS Feeds
- Finding and Using Keyword-Based RSS Feeds
- RSS Feed Readers
- RSS Feed Tools

If you're looking for ways you can continue monitoring news and the web in a post-Twitter world, I think this will help.

Like this article? Please consider boosting it. Thank you.

https://researchbuzz.me/2023/07/06/rss-2/

RSS for Post-Twitter News and Web Monitoring

With Twitter’s stability looking less and less assured, and other social networks making decisions so unpopular as to cause overt user rebellion, many Web users are wondering how they are goi…

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Show threadMlepJul 6, 2023
@researchbuzz Thank you, this is exactly what I've been looking for.
Show threadGuanJul 6, 2023
@researchbuzz This is fantastic, thank you for sharing!
Show threadireallylovemusicJul 6, 2023

@researchbuzz

i suspect most wordpress sites have a built in RSS feed even if they are not acually promoted.
i know mine does.
also, this is great article re the best RSS feed reading app that was killed off :

https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

The Verge
Show threadCBDawson 🏳️‍🌈Jul 7, 2023
@researchbuzz This is making me nostalgic for way back when I maintained some RSS feeds that I had to update manually because there was no other automated or centralized source of the info. I loved that it was just a marked up text file that people could access any way they liked. Sometimes simple really is best!
Show threadDoug BostromJul 7, 2023

@researchbuzz

Extremely helpful. 🙂

In case somebody with levers of control is paying attention to where their site traffic is coming from, may I suggest always leaving intact utm/etc. information identifying link traffic as having arrived via RSS?

For instance, ScienceDirect tags RSS urls with "?dgcid=rss_sd_all." When passing along It may be tempting to "clean up" a url by removing this, but presumably it's there to at least in part to gauge whether RSS is worth supporting.

#RSS

Show threadJackMcCrackJul 7, 2023
@researchbuzz
I am very happy with Miniflux, a golang web server RSS reader. Supports a lot of Apps to consume the agrigated feeds. https://github.com/miniflux/v2
GitHub - miniflux/v2: Minimalist and opinionated feed reader

Minimalist and opinionated feed reader. Contribute to miniflux/v2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadReal_JamesCainJul 7, 2023
@researchbuzz Exactly what I needed! Thank you!
Show threadAdam MillerJul 7, 2023

@researchbuzz

Also, most if not all Substacks are also RSS feeds. I actually prefer reading a lot of those through my feed reader instead of email.

For apps, FreshRSS is a pretty solid self-hosted solution as well.

Show threadBen 👋Jul 7, 2023
@adammiller @researchbuzz Yeah I've been using it for a bunch of substacks. Such a nice way to do it!
Show thread|\| | ( |< `/Jul 7, 2023
@researchbuzz excellent thanks!!!!!!!
Show threadChristy SmithJul 8, 2023
@researchbuzz Hi there. If I may make a suggestion/request? I'm reading your rss article, and I'm loving it for the most part. I really haven't gotten into rss feeds and should now that I'm off twitter. However, the screen shot images have no alt text. Since I'm blind, I'm not really sure what they're showing, other than from the paragraph above it. It'd be super helpful if images like that had alt text explaining at least in general what the screen shot shows.
Show threadZac CrellinJul 8, 2023

@researchbuzz

this is awesome, it's so important to keep RSS alive

the tools to find hidden feeds are especially useful, so thanks for those links

you may be interested in my project, Open Newswire, which is underpinned by RSS: https://www.opennewswire.org/

Open Newswire

Open Newswire is a feed of freely-republishable news articles available in more than 80 languages.

Open Newswire
Show threadsmartwatermelon Jul 8, 2023
@researchbuzz @rmd1023 Thanks for this. It reminds me of when I bolted RSS feed generation onto a custom CMS. Oh, 2000s PHP, you were fun.
Show threadDave BlackJul 8, 2023
@researchbuzz This is really helpful. I dumped Twitter last year and fired up my languishing copy of FeedMe/Feedly. It kinda works for me, and the 'kinda' is because I didn't have the skill to fix it up properly, and because I just assumed modern sites had forgotten about rss!
Show threadRobert FromontJul 9, 2023
@researchbuzz I use and like NextCloud's News app, which is a great RSS reader for those who have an account on a @nextcloud server.
It works in your browser and also has a great Android app too!
Show threadPirateJoieJul 9, 2023
@researchbuzz thanks! It’s on my reading list.
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Jul 9, 2023
@researchbuzz c @davew
Show threadOnwe Miracle OnyebuchiJul 9, 2023
@researchbuzz hi
Show threadmpoletiekJul 9, 2023
@researchbuzz and a bot for posting RSS news to mastodon: https://github.com/TechnoMystics-org/mastodon_rss_bot
GitHub - TechnoMystics-org/mastodon_rss_bot: rss bot for mastodon in python

rss bot for mastodon in python. Contribute to TechnoMystics-org/mastodon_rss_bot development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadEINGFOAN  Jul 9, 2023
@researchbuzz @mariyadelano liked it. I was using google reader 😭….. but it has been thrown under the bus by the default google business model…… RIP
Show threadFX ToledoJul 9, 2023

@researchbuzz
Hi,
Good work! I will use those tips.

By the way, #substack has also RSS feeds.

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Jul 9, 2023
@researchbuzz @jdp23 Thanks so much for this and for your hard work. I was just thinking today that I’d like to find an RSS reader. It looks like some of your suggestions have iOS apps. It might be helpful to more of your audience to note when mobile apps are available, or even list those with apps in a separate section. But that is more work, so I understand if you don’t! This was enough to get me searching and some of the readers you named are appearing. I think I’ll try one of these tomorrow!
Show threadGame Making TooltsJul 11, 2023

@researchbuzz Doesn't seem to be in the article: there are a bunch of browser add-ons that show an icon when a page has an RSS feed (like browsers used to do themselves…).

I use this one, that also renders previews of the feed (like browsers used to do themselves…). Even works on Youtube.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=rss%20find

RSS Bridge is another tool like openrss.org and getrssfeed that I've found useful:

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Feed Preview – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Feed Preview for Firefox. Indicates available RSS and Atom feeds and renders previews.

Show threadDion MoultJul 16, 2023
@researchbuzz nice! I'd like to shoutout #newsboat for a terminal RSS that works on Linux.
Show threadBluehorseNov 12, 2023
@researchbuzz
Excellent.