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YSK: Use RSS feeds to curate your online experience
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Let’s take this opportunity to list out your favourite RSS websites. Let us know what all are your favourites.
The Verge is a cool website with RSS
https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-find-rss-feed-url/
I found this page pretty useful. It turns out WordPress does rss by default and a lot of websites are built on it. So there's a good chance if a website doesn't advertise if it has an rss feed available there will still be one at url.com/feed
I like https://medium.com/feed/@doctorow and https://www.techdirt.com/feed/
https://www.weather.gov has good local weather if you want that in your RSS feed
How do you get an RSS feed for your local weather?
They've got a little tool to help you pick the ones near you/of interest, mine is a local airport https://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/
and remember, the weather channel is the reason the weather service hasn't made this a convenient website/app!
Edit: and here's the one that tells you local watches and warnings for your county! https://alerts.weather.gov/index.php
I'm a big user user of weather.gov, but curious what you mean by blaming weather service for this not being convenient?
Tech dirt isn’t adding for some reason
I like using kill-the-newsletter.com to turn email newsletters into an RSS feed rather than filling up my email inbox
Here are a few TTRPG sites with RSS that I subscribe to
The Alexandrian
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
Dicebreaker
Sly Flourish
I also like Autosport for F1 news
Yeah, I tried doing this a while ago but got frustrated at how difficult it was to find good RSS feeds. I ended up using it mostly for local news and not much else.
Firefox has addons that can help: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/get-rss-feed-url/reviews/
safari, chrome etc also have them
This is a tricky problem to solve for sure. I've been battling it for a while myself.
I've been using Inoreader for a couple of years and it's just perfect. I was using Feedly before this, but Ino was just better at the time.