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title: "RSS: good and useful"
description: RSS/Atom are protocols for Internet-based newsletter/feed services. They're surprisingly well-supported and you should consider using them.
created: 14/05/2022
tags: ["opinion", "web"]
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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it's an underappreciated protocol for generally "following" things on the internet.
Most people do this via proprietary platforms with feed/notification functionality, the problems of which are obvious, or email.
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* WordPress, a very popular platform for blogs, has RSS support enabled by default (just go to `/feed/`).
* YouTube has RSS feeds for channels' videos: `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[ID of channel to follow]`.
* Some web fiction sites (e.g. Royal Road, Archive Of Our Own) have per-story RSS feeds.
* osmarks.net has an RSS feed, linked on the main page somewhere: [https://osmarks.net/rss.xml](https://osmarks.net/rss.xml) - this does only cover blog posts and not experiments, as those aren't actually timestamped.
* osmarks.net has an RSS feed, linked on the main page somewhere: [https://osmarks.net/rss.xml](https://osmarks.net/rss.xml) - this does only cover blog posts and not experiments, as those aren't timestamped.
* Blogspot blogs have feeds at `/rss.xml`.
* The BBC has RSS feeds described here: [https://www.bbc.com/news/10628494](https://www.bbc.com/news/10628494).
* Otherwise, you can ctrl+F for "RSS" or "Atom" or "feed" or "subscribe" and might be successful, or try URLs like `/feed`, `/feed.xml`, `/feed.atom`, `/index.xml`, `/rss` or `/rss.xml`.
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As for RSS readers to use these with, there are many implementations available.
I use [Miniflux](https://miniflux.app/), since it's self-hosted and accessible on multiple devices via the web, and has nice features like keyboard controls, scraping websites which omit some content from RSS feeds, and an integration API which I use to plug it into my convoluted mess of custom scripting.
The [Awesome Self-Hosted list](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#feed-readers) has many other reader applications like this.
If you prefer something which runs locally as a desktop application, [Wikipedia has a list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators) (I haven't actually checked this space myself).
If you prefer something which runs locally as a desktop application, [Wikipedia has a list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators) (I haven't actually checked this space myself).