are you are sick and tired of social media and it's algorithms only showing the content they think you want to see? do you want to take content consumption back into your hands? well i have a perfect tool for your needs: rss feeds.

what?

well without getting needlesly technical you copy a link from a website you want to follow and paste it to your rss reader app and voila you now can read whatever they post without leaving the comfort of your app. the link is usually indicated by this icon:

some rss readers have the ability to search for rss feeds from the website you provided as well.

you are not even locked to the app you started with. almost all apps let you export and import the feeds you follow. so you can switch apps to your hearts content.

but where do i start?

firstly you need an rss reader. depending on your platform i can recommend these

• feeder (android)
• netnewswire (ios/macos)
• fluent reader (windows/linux/macos)

you also need something to populate that rss reader so here is a list of rss feeds. feel free to follow the ones that seem interesting. to follow them just copy the link at (feed) and paste it to your rss reader.

blogs

• bearblog discover: (feed) a nice place to discover new blogs
• indieblog.page: (feed) gives you a random daily blogpost, you can adjust the frequency from here as well
• a whole lotta nothing: (feed) (fediverse)
• an almost anonymous blog: (feed) (fediverse)
• anil dash: (feed)
• bill mei: (feed)
• kit does things: (feed) (fediverse)
• scott h young: (feed)
• annie's blog: (feed)
• simon's blog: (feed) (fediverse)
• coffee's room: (feed) (fediverse)
• ivy's garden: (feed) (fediverse)
• cool as heck: (feed) (fediverse)
• gavi's blog: (feed) (fediverse)
• veronica explains: (feed)
• woolgathering: (feed)

linux/tech

• newsletter from it's foss: (feed)
• techhut: (feed)
• the new oil: (feed)
• torrent freak: (feed) piracy news/legal battles

music

• metal injection: metal album reviews (feed)
• pitchfork: album reviews (feed)
• album of the day: self explanatory, you can also suggest albums. made by annie (feed)

animanga

• anime news network: (feed)
• doublesama: (feed)
• comics beat: (feed)

books

• a life in books: (feed)
• literary hub: (feed)
• bookish elf: (feed)
• from first page to last: (feed)

comics

• cyanide and happiness: (feed)
• berkeley mews: (feed)
• extra ordinary: (feed)
• KB comics: (feed)
• loading artist: (feed)
• pizza cake comic: (feed)
• poorly drawn lines: (feed)
• sarah's scribbles: (feed)
• too much coffee man: (feed)
• truth facts: (feed)
• war and peas: (feed)
• xkcd: (feed)
• analognowhere: (feed)

you can also find more comic feeds at comicsrss.com

movies

• ign movies: (feed)
• literary hub what to watch: (feed)

science/medicine

• scitech daily: you can subscribe to all from their website but i follow the (biology feed), (health and medicine feed) and the (science feed)
• science news: (humans feed) (all feeds)
• ground truths by eric topol: (feed)
• nature articles: (feed)
• neuroscience news: (feed)
• scientific american: (feed)
• science daily: (strange and offbeat feed), (top health news feed), (more options here)
• wired science: (feed)
• science.org: even though they have rss feeds i recommend subscribing to their newsletter using kill the newsletter

short stories

• 50-word stories: (feed)
• uncanny magazine: (feed)
• micro sf/f: (feed) they are on mastodon but i prefer to follow their account through rss to not miss anything
• interzone: (feed)

video games

• buried treasure: (feed)
• ign video games: (feed)
• rock paper shotgun: (features feed), (reviews feed), (all feeds)
• VG247: (articles feed), (all feeds)
• burakku: (feed)

miscellaneous

• ninn salaün: daily fictional weather reports (feed)
• merriam webster: word of the day (feed)
• tom scott: you probably know who he is (feed)
• lootscraper: notifies you about free games, i personally use the (epic games feed) and (steam feed) but you can subscribe to (all feeds) or selectively subscribe to them

turkish

if you speak turkish here are some feeds that you might find interesting

• yusuf ipek: (feed)
• maglibertine albüm inceleme: (feed)
• pasifagresif kritik: (feed)
• altyazı.net (eleştiriler feed), (listeler feed)
• aylık öykü seçkisi: (feed)
• kayıp rıhtım öneriyor: (feed)
• evrim ağacı: (feed)
• matematiksel: (feed)

additional notes

some sites only provide a short summary of their posts in the rss feed. but fear not, most feed readers have a little button that can scrape the content from the webpage and you can even set it as the default for that feed.

you may encounter sites that don't offer an rss feed. you still have options though. if they offer a newsletter kill that newsletter! alternatively you can try services like rss bridge or rss anything.

changelog

• (08/04/2024) added veronica explains, analognowhere and woolgathering
• (01/04/2024) added indieblog.page, cool as heck and gavi's blog

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