RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web(rss.social)
136 pointsby Curiositry11 hours ago17 comments
  • TechSquidTV6 minutes ago
    This goes really well with my RSS reader Tuvix :D https://tuvix.app/
  • postalcoder5 hours ago
    Using HN as a filter for Kagi's Small Web list[0] works really well: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true

    I find the small web feed too noisy without it.

    [0]: https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed

    • rdmuseran hour ago
      The kagi smallweb site has an alternative feed that is less high traffic that only includes appreciated (liked) articles. It's not ideal for a lot of people since it's still pretty high traffic and not a lot of users use the main site with the button to appreciate things. https://kagi.com/smallweb/appreciated

      You can find a few alt feeds for the kagi small web by going to the site and clicking the top right rss button. There are ones for videos, code and comics and a link to the full opml file. https://kagi.com/smallweb

      Btw is there an rss feed for the hn smallweb one?

    • q-base4 hours ago
      I did not know about that feature - thanks a lot for sharing!
    • rainallday4 hours ago
      [dead]
  • beilabsan hour ago
    Would be lovely to have a RSS feed for all the posts from RSS.social but it doesn't seem to exist? I don't see it in the source code.
  • fhennig2 hours ago
    Neat, stuff that makes it easier to find small, independent content is great!

    Others in the comments also linked aggregators.

    I think what's missing a bit in the indie web, is a bit of curation. I think, it'd be great if we had something like music labels, or book publishers, that have a certain taste, and publish certain things. Or on spotify, there are these playlists where new music gets listed, but hand curated by someone with a particular taste.

    I want something like that. I want something like a digital magazine, sourced from blog posts, about a particular topic. Hand curated! Not with automatic topic extraction or whatever. That would be cool to have.

    • postalcoder2 hours ago
      Agreed. There’s a missing layer of curation/discovery that I’d love to see some experimentation on. The small web needs a small structure.
  • freetonik4 hours ago
    Not a wide in the number of sources (yet), but I'm curating a directory/reader/search engine of personal blogs, and the "Global" view shows the latest posts across 1300+ feeds: https://minifeed.net/global
  • splitbrain5 hours ago

      Learn how it works. -> This page is incomplete
    A pity. It's obvious what the "latest" would be, but what is the best? How is that decided?

    Shameless plug: for randomly discovering IndieBlogs check out https://indieblog.page/

  • 7777777phil4 hours ago
    Love this! RSS is alive and well! Going to try and integrate this into my personal RSS Tinder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680013
    • NicuCalcea2 hours ago
      I had a Journalism Innovation class in uni in which we had to come up with a news startup idea, and this is exactly what I pitched! Nice to see someone's made it.
      • 7777777phil43 minutes ago
        Nice! Was also thinking about how this could be a way to bring more people back to “traditional” media. But with the current paywalls it’s really hard to implement. Once you click on an article you potentially like your currently unable to read it…
        • NicuCalcea14 minutes ago
          I was considering it at the time, my idea was to offer a subscription that would redistribute revenue to publishers in exchange for skipping the paywall. This was all a hypothetical plan for a class, of course, and other attempts at bundling news subscriptions have failed. Most existing news aggregators just show a headline and standfirst, and that seems to work.

          Another concern was reinforcing bias. You'd need to show people articles about things they care about, but at the same time, you don't want to put people in bubbles. It's a pretty tough balance to strike.

          • 7777777phil11 minutes ago
            Yes makes sense probably easier said than done, you would need at least one big publisher on your side to begin with.

            Regarding bias, I’m current using a 70/30 exploitation/exploration split and add time weighting onto that. So you should always have ~3 new articles outside your “bubble” per 10 articles you swipe.

    • rainallday4 hours ago
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  • botacode7 hours ago
    It's nice to have a lot of small web content laid out like this! Some suggestions to make discovery more palatable:

    - 1-2 sentence summaries for the content. most titles are not sufficiently descriptive and clicking on something un-interesting a few times is a sure fire way to get folks to churn

    - checks for included feeds that they are correctly configured and the resources load in-browser (not download a random file to my computer)

  • tasuki2 hours ago
    I was surprised to find my blog there. I did a git blame on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb and it was in the initial commit, so I guess I'll never find out...
  • steffoz3 hours ago
    Great! And funny too, just posted about my personal take on the same topic: https://squeaki.sh/p/i-turned-my-website-into-my-feed-reader...
  • pryncevv6 hours ago
    We don't have a RSS Feed yet, but the alivenet will welcome your visit - https://vvesh.de
    • hsx3 hours ago
      I've allegedly been blocked by Cloudflare, despite accessing from an Australian residential IP..

      Unless you're geoblocking?

  • october81405 hours ago
    Since "best" is subjective maybe give a description of the kind of content you hope to feature and why you think it's important.
  • alex113838 minutes ago
    It's kind of amazing we've forgotten the rest of the web exists

    Everything now is either facebook.com, google.com or cnn.com (not exactly specifically that, but you know)

    It used to be this wild, almost untamed thing. Or what I'm trying to say is it's boring now

  • q-base5 hours ago
    I really like it! Sometimes I just want to read something random and sampling from small personal websites is a great way to discover new people to follow.
  • matthew-craigan hour ago
    This could be an interesting answer to "what sites are like Hacker News but with more diverse topics". All you'd need is a upvotes/downvotes and a comments section.
  • sam_lowry_4 hours ago
    .social domain has a negative connotation nowadays.
    • fhennig2 hours ago
      I don't think that's universal, I don't have a negative association with it.
  • markoa4 hours ago
    Love this, bookmarked.