RSS feeds

fraydabson@sopuli.xyz to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 65 points –

Wasn’t sure where to ask this but figured people here host their own rss platforms. I just started with miniflux. Between that and reeder it makes RSS nice and easy.

My issue is that until the 3rd party Reddit nonsense, i let Reddit monopolize my information gathering. To the point I don’t know where else to get info from. Like which websites I can trust that aren’t just bad forms of marketing. Forums and things like that. I don’t know any of them because I spent all my time with Reddit.

Anyone have ideas or suggestions of good rss feeds for people who are interested in tech and programming and gaming and whatnot

Edit: thanks for all the great suggestions. I’m building up a nice RSS stream.

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I have a collection of about 60 ish rss feeds on my NextCloud instance. Some that come to mind:

  1. Hackaday-It's great but might take over your feed.

  2. https://n-o-d-e.net/rss/rss.xml node is awesome. Lots of great designs and tech related content.

  3. https://charity.wtf/ has a good feed. Lots of great software developer and project management articles.

I have a lot more but I'm on my phone.

Slashdot - https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain

HighScalability - https://feeds.feedburner.com/HighScalability

Hackernews - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

The verge - https://theverge.com/rss/index.xml

Bonus tip: You can also filter Hacker News posts on the amount of upvotes/points. For example, this URL will return only the newest posts with a minimum of 200 points. This way, you only get some of the best/most important posts in your feed.

https://hnrss.org/newest?points=200

If you don't want to manually define a particular point threshold, https://hnrss.org/best works pretty great.

Just wondering if there's something similar for Lobster.

This is what I use. Works pretty great.

Just wondering if there's something similar for Lobster.

Now that’s a „today I learned“ moment for me, improving my feed a lot. Thanks fellow Fedditor!

So far I simply used a bunch of expressions to filter out certain topics I am not interested in, but didn’t really have a good approach to filter by quality.

I would add Ars Technica to that list and call it a day.

For programming I follow YouTube channels of the conferences relevant for my tech stack (YouTube natively supports RSS). They are generally 1 hour talks but it's a great way to stay up to date.

thanks for suggesting Ars Technica, I added it to my feed.

Thanks for the suggestions! Hackernews didn’t seem to work. But the rest are good. And I added ars.

Yeah I can't get HNRSS to work either.

I did get it working. I am using this feed url https://hnrss.org/newest?points=200 so it grabs all the newest posts with at least 200 points

Yeah I did the same. The best feed didn't work. My reader kept removing the ? which is needed.

For tech I have Ars, Phoronix, TomsHardware, Slashdot. I feel that covers a lot and keeps me up to date.

Does Slashdot still have value? I read Slashdot way back in the '90s and early '00s.

It does I think, not as much as it used to but every now and then I find good articles on there I wouldn't have found elsewhere. For me, it's worth a quick glance.

You can also get YouTube channels on RSS

I use this + seal android app to get lots of youtube only podcasts quickly into my podcast app of choice

It depends what your interests are. I have 364 feeds in my reader (granted, a lot of these are from Reddit [1], I wouldn't be surprised if they remove this way to consume posts someday...), on various topics ranging from IT/tech stuff, news, DIY, history/art blogs, youtube channels [2], bandcamp album releases [3]...

When I find an interesting article by just randomly browsing/following links, I often check if the website/blog has an RSS feed and just add it to my feed reader. If it's too noisy, I end up adding filters to discard (or auto-mark as read) bad articles based on title/content/tags.

Random recommendation: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website)

While it's not articles, you probably want to follow your favorite projects using Github and Gitlab's RSS feeds for repositories, especially the releases feed. I often learn more about actual trends (not just things people talk about but do not implement) by reading releases changelogs than by reading medium or press articles.

Otherwise, Hacker News (mentioned by temp_user) and Lobster (rss) both are good ways to follow news. HN is more verbose. Lobsters filters what they think is the best content from HN, but it usually comes a day or two later. One interesting aspect of those aggregators is that they help you discover websites that may contain their own rss feed.

Thanks! I didn’t even think of checking out GitHub’s RSS! I’ll also check out the other ones you and temp suggested.

You're going to have a pleasant surprise, then. :) There are RSS feeds for basically everything, on Github : a repository commits, an issue/pull request activities, a user activities, your social feed (the homepage), project releases, etc. Same for Gitlab. Gitlab even recently added a RSS feed for topics, allowing to get notifications when a project matching given topic is created (example: the feed for 3d printing projects). Too bad they don't have as much activity than Github.

Oh wow that is cool. I’ve already added a few GitHub projects to my feed. One of my GitHub projects I follow though don’t use GitHub to announce anything sadly. They only use discord.

I wish I could convert certain discord channels to an rss feed. My understanding is it might be possible with a discord bot but I haven’t tried yet.