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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?

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[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Cory Doctorow's blog pluralistic.net is required reading as far as I'm concerned.

You should also look into Escape Pod if you like sci-fi (just a hunch).

[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Youtube channels have RSS feeds, I also subscribe to Slashdot and a few webcomics and Neatorama.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I follow my own Lemmy feed via RSS.

This is where I find the RSS link on my page. The RSS link it generates is based on which buttons you have chosen. My current RSS feed shows posts, hiding hidden posts, to everything I've subscribed to, using the Hot algorithm.

Clicking the link will download an XML file for RSS, or you can just right click and "Copy Link" and that works, too.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Back before algorithms and social media ruined the Internet, there was an RSS feed one click away on every website. Now many of them are removed or just hidden.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Close, it's the need to drive traffic that killed it. Gotta get those clicks for advertisers.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Someone linked to a couple other threads, but that instance is taking forever to load (site issues?) so I can't find out if they are the two to which I recently commented. So, just to be sure, here's the list I exported from my preferred RSS client (there are some that are inactive, I've just never removed them because they don't interfere with those that are still active). Mostly pro-audio, tech stuff, blogs, some political stuff that I mostly keep hidden from view unless I wanna see it.

www.kvraudio.com/index.php?s=top
www.macosaudio.com
www.404media.co/
leancrew.com/all-this/
www.appleoutsider.com
arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com
bitsplitting.org
brettterpstra.com
veertu.com/
daringfireball.net/
krebsonsecurity.com
marco.org/
onethingwell.org/
sheriffs.substack.com
twitterisgoinggreat.com/
veertu.com/
distrowatch.com/
distrowatch.com/
liliputing.com/
www.macstories.net
www.servethehome.com/category/networking/
www.cyberciti.biz/atom/
www.servethehome.com/
sixcolors.com
www.techdirt.com
tidbits.com/
www.servethehome.com/tag/tinyminimicro/
www.wired.com
www.afp548.com
www.airpair.com
www.airpair.com
www.airpair.com
annoying.technology/
birchtree.me/
blog.codinghorror.com/
command-tab.com
ericasadun.com
boehs.org
arstechnica.com
lapcatsoftware.com/FeedbackAssistantBoycott/index.html
flickerfusion.com/index.xml
www.friendlyatheist.com
furbo.org
hypercritical.co/feeds/main
inessential.com/
www.kooslooijesteijn.net
www.kooslooijesteijn.net
krypted.com
blog.lastinfirstout.net/
learn-networking.com
linuxblog.io/
linuxblog.io/
mjtsai.com/blog
mrmacintosh.com/
mtlynch.io/
www.multicore.blog
nfarina.com/
www.cyberciti.biz/
notes.ghed.in/
pxlnv.com/
planet.centos.org
mtlynch.io/posts/
inessential.com/
redsweater.com/blog
rentzsch.tumblr.com/
retina.studio
morrick.me
www.peoplefor.org/
www.schneier.com/
docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/msdn/sfu/feed.xml
shawnblanc.net
tante.cc/
stevenf.com/wiki/
take.surf/feed.atom
macromates.com
lapcatsoftware.com/articles/index.html
eclecticlight.co
www.alexlaird.com/
lonesysadmin.net/
robservatory.com
shapeof.com/
theunderground.blog/
everythingsysadmin.com/
tyler.io
underpassapp.com/news/index.html
waxy.org
waxy.org/
web3isgoinggreat.com
williamlam.com
stevenf.com/wiki/
firewallengineer.wordpress.com
abnml.com/
www.astralcodexten.com
hackerboards.com
changelog.com/
davidwalsh.name
www.wheresyoured.at/
blog.equinux.com/
telruptive.com
news.ycombinator.com/ask
news.ycombinator.com/newest
hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
howtonode.org
macwright.com
meh.com
crys.site/bsd/
mikeindustries.com/blog
www.cyberciti.biz/atom/
www.raywenderlich.com
feeds.feedblitz.com/scotch_io
sunilkumarn.wordpress.com
simonwillison.net/atom/everything
taoofmac.com
www.tenable.com/
thehungrycoder.com
www.theverge.com
crys.site/unix-history/
blog.codeship.com
codecondo.com
webapplog.com
www.andrewhay.ca
www.cio.com
www.computerworld.com
www.computerworld.com
www.extremetech.com/feed
hazenet.dk
www.infoworld.com
itcblogs.currentanalysis.com
itcblogs.currentanalysis.com
www.techradar.com/rss
www.linuxjournal.com/
www.linuxtoday.com/
www.linux.com
lxer.com/
oswalt.dev/
meilleurabonnementiptvavis.wordpress.com
mondaynote.com?source=rss----c537d80ed0a---4
netcraftsmen.com
www.networkcomputing.com
www.networkcomputing.com
www.networkworld.com
www.networkworld.com
www.networkingfiles.com
www.phoronix.com/
www.sdxcentral.com
www.securitypronews.com
techbuddha.wordpress.com
www.storagereview.com
www.sysadminnews.com
www.tecmint.com
nucblog.net/
www.unixmen.com/
www.virten.net
www.citationneeded.news/
www.dropsitenews.com
[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I've been self-hosting an RSS feed reader and have been tying to build up a list of feeds to follow as well. It's been a messy experience so far. Some feeds push WAY to much (like some newspapers, which will push dozens of articles a day). That drowns out some others who post only occasionally (like webcomics). Organizing the feeds seems necessary, and I've done poorly doing that so far.

I've added feeds for technical groups I'm interested in (e.g. https://blog.system76.com/rss.xml)

I find that subscribing to political commentators, bloggers, and local newspapers works best, and trying to find news feeds that allow you to filter by topic (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss or https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/rss)

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago
[-] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

I don't have any specific feeds, and of course it depends on your interests, but I just wanted to recommend to keep an eye out for feeds during your everyday browsing

When I see an interesting link on Lemmy to a news article or a blog, I just look at a couple of more articles on that site, and if it seems interesting I subscribe to it! ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‰ (I can always unsubscribe later if it turns out that I don't like it). I started using RSS a few days ago, and I've collected quite a few blogs and news sites this way

(Btw also keep in mind, that some news sites provide feeds for specific tags, you don't have to subscribe to everything that gets posted)

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The tags for specific feeds seem to be really important for news sites. I tried adding one without it, and it completely overwhelmed my feed with a billion posts per day. I removed it in less than 24 hrs, lol

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