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I find the small web feed too noisy without it.
You can find a few alt feeds for the kagi small web by going to the site and clicking the top right rss button. There are ones for videos, code and comics and a link to the full opml file. https://kagi.com/smallweb
Btw is there an rss feed for the hn smallweb one?
I've had a few requests for rss feeds but alas I've been focusing on comments-related features. Is anyone else interested in an rss feed for HN x smallweb? I may get the ball rolling if there's some more interest.
Another concern was reinforcing bias. You'd need to show people articles about things they care about, but at the same time, you don't want to put people in bubbles. It's a pretty tough balance to strike.
Regarding bias, I’m current using a 70/30 exploitation/exploration split and add time weighting onto that. So you should always have ~3 new articles outside your “bubble” per 10 articles you swipe.
Either way I was thinking to implement those.
[1] https://philippdubach.com/standalone/rss-tinder/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602227
Others in the comments also linked aggregators.
I think what's missing a bit in the indie web, is a bit of curation. I think, it'd be great if we had something like music labels, or book publishers, that have a certain taste, and publish certain things. Or on spotify, there are these playlists where new music gets listed, but hand curated by someone with a particular taste.
I want something like that. I want something like a digital magazine, sourced from blog posts, about a particular topic. Hand curated! Not with automatic topic extraction or whatever. That would be cool to have.
Everything now is either facebook.com, google.com or cnn.com (not exactly specifically that, but you know)
It used to be this wild, almost untamed thing. Or what I'm trying to say is it's boring now
Make it an RSS feed of RSS feeds. That's still kind of contrary to the spirit of RSS because you are centralizing.
People use gmail because it was free and in the right place at the right time with the right features. The web UI sucked when it came out, now it sucks even worse, but all email UI sucks.
None of these things are simple or good or the best solution, they're just free and people need to keep in touch somehow.
I disagree that anyone HAS TO use Discord. Slack on the other hand, yeah I can see how that would be the case. However, the industry would have not adopted Slack if it wasn't good as it was, the landscape was ripe for something new. Sadly Slack barely updates with anything meaningful.
It has been a passion project of mine since inception and just recently reached over 2000 commits, adding about 10 new websites every day (around 29,000 total at the moment).
It is also the first thing open in my browser every morning.
You can view these blogs visually at https://kagi.com/smallweb and content from all of them is surfaced high in Kagi search results (when relevant).
Thanks for your work on this. It’s appreciated!
RSS still feels like one of the few genuinely user-controlled ways to follow the web, but keeping it usable today seems to depend almost entirely on community curation. Curious how others here handle feed discovery now.
But seriously, Mastodon, etc. are cool, but there's gotta be a way we can augment RSS to get most of what we want?
It's mostly focused on tech-related blogs, though. A place to find good articles from fellow developers.
There are some extra features on top of it. Like semantic search, remixing rss feeds into a single one are some of my favorites.
The user-agent includes a link to https://rss.social/bot but it says coming soon, which I think is a shame.
There's also no way to opt-out.
botacode•2w ago
- 1-2 sentence summaries for the content. most titles are not sufficiently descriptive and clicking on something un-interesting a few times is a sure fire way to get folks to churn
- checks for included feeds that they are correctly configured and the resources load in-browser (not download a random file to my computer)