In an effort to further curate my online experience and try to bring stuff I’m interested in directly to me without all the “noise” and effort that goes with scrolling random sites, I’m late to the party and finally trying out RSS.

I installed a reader, and so far have added some local news, local weather, alerts (e.g. FDA warnings), a few niche blogs, NASA’s APOD and news feeds, a couple of comics, and a youtube channel (only got it to work once - it seems buggy for others), a podcast, and now I’m out of ideas.

Do y’all have any favorite feeds that you follow? Or any tips about where to look / types of feeds that might be interesting?

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
    10·
    23 hours ago

    OpenRSS is a cool site that aims to produce RSS feeds for sites without them at no cost (some conditions apply, e.g. no account-walled/paywalled sites may be requested).

    There’s also the Feedbro add-on for Firefox (and other browsers) that can be used to check if a website has a RSS feed buried somewhere to add to your reader.

    If you’d like to keep up with some non-commercial music, you could check out the Editor’s Picks from ccMixter. Here’s the direct feed link.

    In case of follow-up questions:

    • Mobile Apps: personally I’m mostly using Feeder on Android these days. I like to be able to see a lot of feed entries at once and this works best for me. I’ve tried apps like Read You and Nunti, but they weren’t showing as much as I wanted.
      • Worth noting though, Nunti may be worth trying for its unique feature that tries to adjust your feeds to surface articles/entries that may be of more interest to you with offline systems.
    • Desktop/laptop: I’m still sort of searching on this one. For the moment I use Thunderbird, but it’s not RSS-focused so it’s more than I want from a reader.
    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      23 hours ago

      This is promising! Thanks.

      I’m using Feeder too. I haven’t tried any others, but I remember someone on lemmy recommended it once before, and it seems perfectly good to me.