So I set up TT-RSS the other day and it’s generally nice, the only problem is I’m trying to find feeds that are interesting more or less. For example, we all enjoy watching TV, right? So I took the TV OPML from awesome-rss-feeds on GH and applied it, and was not amused. I don’t watch that many television and I very quickly realized that none of the content in those feeds applies to me at all, so I removed it.
Basically, where are the amateur hour feeds? 😅
I think everyone that selfhost their RSS-feeds have at one point or another thought “now what?”.
I have 3 recommendations that might help get you started:
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feedspot is a great place to start to just discover what’s out there.
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GitHub releases can be followed as RSS (atom) feeds. This is a great way to keep up with changelogs for services that you selfhost. For example, here is the RSS/Atom feed for Jellyfin: link
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Do you listen to podcasts? These can usually be found as RSS-feeds and is a great way to get your daily dose of news on your morning commute.
This is great advice, I was able to find some niches I enjoy on feedspot & subbed to my favorite FOSS project release changelogs. Podcasts - not so much, I usually stick to just music.
Glad I could help!
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Start with Lemmy feeds. Open a community, sort it by, let’s say, top-day posts, and copy the RSS button link. Here we are - top posts for 24h for a community you like but in RSS. I am subscribed to Ukrainian National Bank news, Kyiv Subway (Metro) non-urgent news, the news feed of our president, few government ministries. All this is to keep up to date with government regulations. Then there are a few developers and IT and Tech portals with worldwide news for their fields - top for the day, top for the week, and top for the month in separate feeds. Anandtech, for example. I used to be subscribed to a few Twitter accounts by RSS via a RSS-Bridge, but it’s gone now. A few vendors for the products I like. A few VR portals as I have an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset. Unraid news, as I own one. Thinking of moving email GitHub releases subscriptions to RSS. I can continue if you want.
I’m already spending most of my day at work browsing Lemmy, don’t see a reason to set up feeds but thanks for the suggestion nonetheless.
You asked for RSS-feeds suggestions from us lemmings, and after I suggested you an approach to find the feeds for yourself you are telling me that you see no reason in using the feeds at all. That’s a weird conclusion :D
I wanted feeds that are off-platform, I just don’t see the reason to set up a Lemmy feed when I’m already browsing Lemmy :D
Lemmy feeds are just the first point I mentioned. There are more points in my comment.
Look into rss-bridge, spinning it up in docker is a doddle and it lets you turn stuff without a rss feed into rss feeds. Since logging out from reddit I use it to keep track of obscure subreddits in a way more controlled fashion, plus, no doomscrolling or supporting spez. There’s a whole bunch of other bridges to explore. You can also convince You-tube to give you a feed instead of following there (even without rss-bridge).
This is a great suggestion, some things I want to follow do not have RSS feeds built in so thanks a lot.
Don’t forget that TT-RSS can filter articles for you. Say, for example, that your TV feed had a sci-fi category, and you only wanted to see that. TT-RSS can mark everything else as read (or deleted) so you only see that.
Useful for ‘firehose’ type feeds where you are only interested in a specific subject.
I’m still getting the hang of it, but this is good to know. If only the tt-rss documentation was just a bit more organized :/
I use https://www.talkwalker.com/alerts to setup notifications via RSS on keywords that are interesting to me.
I’m getting a blank white page. No Firefox support?
I guess it all depends on what you find interesting. I have the brief extension installed on my browser and whenever I find blogs or people I enjoy if they have an atom/rss feed I subscribe. Over the years you find lots of content.
Some of the random sites I follow:
I understand it depends on what I find interesting, I just wanted people to throw some of their more niche blogs/news sites they follow for my own benefit. These are great, thanks a lot.
I found a few through https://ooh.directory/
I have been using FressRSS to capture Twitter RSS feeds via Nitter for local municipal news, events, etc.
Since Twitter has gone off and blocked this from working, my rss feeds will need to be re-evaluated. Had these groups stuck with RSS instead of putting all their faith in social media platforms, their posts would have been immune to this sort of nonsense.
