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Tag: RSS

RSS-Bridge generates web feeds for websites that don’t have one

2026-08-072026-08-07 Danie
Alt text: RSS Bridge web page interface showing a search bar to find feeds and a list of news sources like ABC News and A Bola.

You can either self-host the service, in many different ways, or there is also an official online instance you can use. The link to that instance is on the GitHub project page at the link […]

Blogopensource, RSS, technology

You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader

2026-04-102026-04-10 Danie
Screenshot of Inoreader feed showing technology news articles with images and headlines about AI, data centers, self-driving cars, and charging tech.

“You may know that Reddit can be a treasure trove of useful information and opinion, and that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a clean and straightforward way to keep up with what’s happening on the […]

Blogreddit, RSS, technology

TT-RSS Shuts Down, but the Project Lives On Under a New Fork

2025-10-272025-10-27 Danie
Logo of TT RSS featuring a stylized 't' in orange and white, with an orange RSS feed symbol, set against a blue background.

“In a surprising move, Andrew Dolgov (known online as “fox”), the original developer of the popular self-hosted open-source RSS reader and news aggregator Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS), announced that on November 1, 2025, he will […]

Blogopensource, RSS, selfhosting, technology

Follow updates across the web in a feed that only you control, even if the site does not offer an RSS feed

2025-01-032025-01-03 Danie
The image shows a dark-themed webpage, possibly a subscription or feed aggregator. The foreground is dominated by a clean, minimalist design with a text prompt inviting users to enter websites to subscribe to their RSS feeds. The background is uniformly dark, providing a stark contrast to the olive-green text. There is a search bar for website feeds and a link to a page explaining how the system works. The text on the page says: Follow updates across the web in a feed that only you control. Enter any website to subscribe to its RSS feed below.

Open RSS offers feeds that are a much healthier alternative to the intrusive, algorithmic feeds on websites that harm and manipulate us. But several sites, including Tumblr and Craigslist, have removed their RSS feeds, so […]

Blogadverts, privacy, RSS, technology

Stop using Social Media for News, RSS is Much Better!

2024-05-262024-05-26 Danie
A webpage showing various category names down the left-hand side. In the centre there is a list of5 articles with the heading All Personal Feeds. Each article has a bold text title with an associated excerpt paragraph from the article. To the left of the title and excerpt is a thumbnail image from each article.

RSS is one place for you to quickly sift through numerous sources of news quickly and efficiently. It’s up to you to decide what feeds to add – as many or as few as you […]

Blognews, RSS, technology

Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds with an extra bell and whistle

2024-03-112024-03-11 Danie
A mobile phone app screen showing a news feed with titles and a thumbnail image for each news item.

RSS feed apps are a really great way to focus on what you want to see and read about, but once you’ve read the feeds, the app is blank as it only shows what is […]

Blognews, RSS, technology

Elon Musk Gutted Their App. Now They Want To Make One That’s Billionaire-Proof: Tapestry will be RSS

2024-02-102024-02-10 Danie
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“Twitterrific was our flagship app, and by far earned the most of any of our pieces of software we’ve produced. Its loss is still being felt revenue-wise to this day. We’re hopeful that Tapestry will […]

BlogRSS, socialnetworks, Tapestry, technology, Twitterrific

Not only can any RSS reader follow a Mastodon Profile’s posts, they can also follow any Hashtags on a Server

2023-09-022023-09-02 Danie
Image of a Mastodon post explaining how an RSS feed can be dermined form any hashtag on a Mastodon server. For example to subscribe to the hashtag dogs on the mstdn.social server you'd use the RSS feed mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss

In stark contrast to X yet again (and now the final straw for me) breaking API interaction with a profile, Mastodon makes it way easier to follow posts without even visiting the network. Many knew […]

Blogmastodon, RSS, socialmedia, technology

Fluent Reader is a modern looking open-source desktop app for RSS News Reading

2023-08-082023-08-08 Danie
As per post title, with a blue logo with letter F

Are you frustrated with trying to source news about your interests from busy social media bias, or all the clutter and distractions of actual news websites? Don’t have time to visit 20 different websites to […]

BlogFluentReader, news, opensource, RSS, technology

Who killed Google Reader? Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been

2023-06-302023-06-30 Danie
Google RSS Reader

Back when it still existed at all. Google’s feed-reading tool offered a powerful way to curate and read the internet and was beloved by its users. Reader launched in 2005, right as the blogging era […]

BlogGoogleReader, RSS, technology

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