What Is RSS? #

• What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS)
• A Gentle Intro to RSS
• Who Needs Meta or Google for News? Use ‘Really Simple Syndication’ | The Tyee
• You should be using an RSS reader - Cory Doctorow
• An Ode to RSS
• Curate your own newspaper with RSS

Apps #

All #

These aggregator services work on the web and have their own apps as well as provide APIs that let other apps work with their services.

• Feedbin
• Feedly
• Inoreader
  • Reabble link - RSS Reader for Amazon Kindle and other E-Ink Display devices. Integrates with Inoreader
• NewsBlur
• Readwise
• CommaFeed

Self Host #

• FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator 'FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator.It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.'

Android #

• Feeder
• FeedMe
• Capy Reader
• FocusReader RSS Reader

Apple Devices #

• NetNewsWire
• Unread
• Reeder
• Unread
• ReadKit
• Fiery Feeds

Browser Extensions #

• Feedbro 'Fast & free RSS feed reader as a browser extension for Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, Brave and Firefox for reading blogs, news or any RSS, Atom or RDF based feed.'

Stop Newsletters from Clogging up Your Inbox #

There is a service called Kill the Newsletter! that will turn your newsletter subscriptions into a feed.

How does Kill the Newsletter! work? Create a feed with the form above and Kill the Newsletter! provides you with an email address and an Atom feed. Emails that are received at that address are turned into entries in that feed. Sign up to a newsletter with that address and use your feed reader to subscribe to that feed.

Mastodon #

• How to follow a hashtag on Mastodon with RSS
• There is an RSS feed of your posts aka Toots
  • You can find it by adding .rss to the end of your profile like this:

[https://][server.name]/@[username].rss

Here's an example of mine:
https://indieweb.social/@techlifeweb.rss

Bluesky #

• Similar to Mastodon, you can get a feed of your Bluesky posts by addin /rss to the end of your profile. The main difference here is that the URL changes when you put it in your browser. Kind of annoying because what you see isn't what you get but it works. Here is mine for example:

https://bsky.app/profile/techlifeweb.bsky.social/rss
becomes
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tgso5pdkmwek624uzfba4btb/rss

Other #

• Feedle link is an RSS search engine. It finds blogs and stuff with RSS feeds and the search itself is becomes a feed that you can subscribe to in your reader to keep up with the topics you want to.
• GetRSSFeed link 'Helps you discover and extract RSS feeds from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, SoundCloud, and blog / websites'
• rssrssrssrss link Combine Multiple RSS Feeds into One
• MastoFeed Send your RSS Feeds to Mastodon 'MastoFeed is the easiest way to automate sending your RSS content to your Mastodon account, but it works with almost any other type of Fediverse software.'