I used the cool-down time after the weekend #hackernews rush, to compile some of people's pressing questions about @feedle and what we are planning ahead. I tried to address as much as I could, in what came out to be a pretty lengthy blog post. Enjoy!
Getting back into RSS after finding an app I like for Android, Feeder (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsenseapps.feeder.play). Only thing I don't like about it is that when you read something, it marks it read instantly & removes it from your feed altogether instead of just leaving it there read like I'd prefer.
But you can save favorite posts before you close/back out of them for reference - you just have to remember to do it.
Other than that, Feeder is a GREAT app with an excellent simple, intuitive UI. I now have 30 blogs in it that I follow and check regularly.
I recently revived my Reeder 3 app on my iPad, only to discover that most of the #RSS feeds to which I had formerly been subscribed are defunct. Might pay to upgrade to the newest version.
RSS promised to free us from the balkanization of media, but the billionaires have been trying to kill it ever since and force you into views their websites directly to generate more ad revenue.
So, I thought I’d start making a list of sites I read that have RSS feeds that actually show up with previews. …
My Modern Met has a great #RSS feed, but there is strangely no link to it on their website that I can find. Nevertheless, this URL should work. #RSSfeeds#art#design
Anyone got any #RSS#feeds from trustworthy #news organisations or #jurnalists ? Trying to move away from algorithms and this seems like a good enough option for the most part. Mostly interested in world/European news.
Does #eBay still have #rssfeeds? I know they once did. I'm trying to monitor stuff with a program, and eBay think it's suspicious. #RSS would be a great workaround for that.
Nobody's born cool, except those blog owners and website owners who still offer RSS feeds on their sites.
In these times, when birdsite is getting more and more degraded, RSS feeds are a godsend option for getting news articles into the #fediverse.
If you have a #wordpress blog / site, you're likely to have an RSS feed ready to use, even if your browser doesn't display its recognizable logo in the address bar.
The most simple test you can do to probe for a possible feed is to simply just append /feed to the end of a website / blog article.
If the feed was found, you will be offered to download an .xml file, which is the RSS summary file, and it's likely that it's going to have a mix of letters and numbers as a file name, and might not even have an extension.
A more advanced approach would be to right click on an empty space on the site and selecting View Page Source.
While in this new window, you can search for rss, feed, rss+xml, atom, feed+json in hopes of finding one, but it is quite a rare sight to have one on modern sites.
Another good measure would be to install an RSS discovery addon to your browser, which will return the feed indicator logo and likely will offer to copy the feed link to your clipboard.
However, if you found a site that is entirely devoid of feeds, you might be able to use a generator to create a feed specific to the site, using RSSHub.
So @researchbuzz (follow them!) has created a Mastodon URL Helper tool (for desktop, probably won't work on mobile) and it is a REALLY good, simple tool to quickly show the information from your username on Mastodon, including your RSS info. (Did you know if you put .rss after your username you can see your own feed from here as an RSS feed??)
My results from using the URL helper are attached here as the image -- and try it out for yourself here: