by postalcoder
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- 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
by freediver
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- Good to see more projects plugging into Kagi Small Web.
It has been a passion project of mine since inception and just recently reached over 2000 commits, adding about 10 new websites every day (around 29,000 total at the moment).
It is also the first thing open in my browser every morning.
You can view these blogs visually at https://kagi.com/smallweb and content from all of them is surfaced high in Kagi search results (when relevant).
- I tried building an RSS library feature for a side project (https://beavergrow.com), mostly as a way to curate feeds I actually enjoy reading. It quickly highlighted how fragile the RSS ecosystem has become Feedburner gone, Google slowly de-emphasizing RSS, and discovery being the hardest part now.
RSS still feels like one of the few genuinely user-controlled ways to follow the web, but keeping it usable today seems to depend almost entirely on community curation. Curious how others here handle feed discovery now.
by splitbrain
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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/
- Isn't this the opposite of RSS? Isn't the point that instead of going to one centralized server to get feeds you subscribe to the actual source feeds?
Make it an RSS feed of RSS feeds. That's still kind of contrary to the spirit of RSS because you are centralizing.
by freetonik
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- 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
by 7777777phil
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- 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
by CqtGLRGcukpy
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- I have a personal site that is listed in there, and it polls my site much more frequently then it needs to (like multiple times a day, compared to when I blog about once a week).
The user-agent includes a link to https://rss.social/bot but it says coming soon, which I think is a shame.
There's also no way to opt-out.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- This is really cool, but what on earth do you do with it? It would be a full time job to read all the posts from this stream, and their titles are not editorialized like on HN, so it's much harder to filter by title.
by october8140
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- Since "best" is subjective maybe give a description of the kind of content you hope to feature and why you think it's important.
- 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...
by lucasfdacunha
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- I've been doing something similar with https://greatreads.dev/.
It's mostly focused on tech-related blogs, though. A place to find good articles from fellow developers.
There are some extra features on top of it. Like semantic search, remixing rss feeds into a single one are some of my favorites.
- Can someone explain how to read such a feed where a new article appears every couple of minutes? I'm trying to make it easier to find new articles from personal blogs on weblogs.ai and am surprised by the attention to rss.social, even though it's objectively inconvenient to use.
by TechSquidTV
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- This goes really well with my RSS reader Tuvix :D https://tuvix.app/
- We don't have a RSS Feed yet, but the alivenet will welcome your visit - https://vvesh.de
- 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...
- I like the concept of RSS.Social but the author forgot to create a RSS feed link for RSS.Social it's self.
- 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.
by sam_lowry_
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- .social domain has a negative connotation nowadays.
- I like it the concept of RSS.Social but one thing that someone forgot was the RSS feed link for RSS.Social it's self.
- 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
- Link for rss.social is broken
- Love this, bookmarked.
by matthew-craig
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- 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.
Hacker News