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I have a collection of about 60 ish rss feeds on my NextCloud instance. Some that come to mind:
Hackaday-It's great but might take over your feed.
https://n-o-d-e.net/rss/rss.xml node is awesome. Lots of great designs and tech related content.
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.
Hackaday-It’s great but might take over your feed.
And? lol
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.
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.
https://www.youneedfeeds.com/starter-packs is a fairly solid resource for some good, category-based feed groups.
You can also get YouTube channels on RSS
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)
You can subscribe to Lemmy via RSS
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.