The kagi smallweb site has an alternative feed that is less high traffic that only includes appreciated (liked) articles. It's not ideal for a lot of people since it's still pretty high traffic and not a lot of users use the main site with the button to appreciate things.
https://kagi.com/smallweb/appreciated
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
Not a wide in the number of sources (yet), but I'm curating a directory/reader/search engine of personal blogs, and the "Global" view shows the latest posts across 1300+ feeds: https://minifeed.net/global
Neat, stuff that makes it easier to find small, independent content is great!
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.
I had a Journalism Innovation class in uni in which we had to come up with a news startup idea, and this is exactly what I pitched! Nice to see someone's made it.
I was surprised to find my blog there. I did a git blame on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb and it was in the initial commit, so I guess I'll never find out...
It's nice to have a lot of small web content laid out like this! Some suggestions to make discovery more palatable:
- 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)
This could be an interesting answer to "what sites are like Hacker News but with more diverse topics". All you'd need is a upvotes/downvotes and a comments section.
I really like it! Sometimes I just want to read something random and sampling from small personal websites is a great way to discover new people to follow.
Using HN as a filter for Kagi's Small Web list[0] works really well: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true
I find the small web feed too noisy without it.
[0]: https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed
The kagi smallweb site has an alternative feed that is less high traffic that only includes appreciated (liked) articles. It's not ideal for a lot of people since it's still pretty high traffic and not a lot of users use the main site with the button to appreciate things. https://kagi.com/smallweb/appreciated
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 did not know about that feature - thanks a lot for sharing!
Would be lovely to have a RSS feed for all the posts from RSS.social but it doesn't seem to exist? I don't see it in the source code.
Not a wide in the number of sources (yet), but I'm curating a directory/reader/search engine of personal blogs, and the "Global" view shows the latest posts across 1300+ feeds: https://minifeed.net/global
Is there a feed of your global feed? A meta feed? If I download an opml it will just go out of date right?
How can one submit their blog?
https://minifeed.net/suggest
Neat, stuff that makes it easier to find small, independent content is great!
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.
Agreed. There’s a missing layer of curation/discovery that I’d love to see some experimentation on. The small web needs a small structure.
Shameless plug: for randomly discovering IndieBlogs check out https://indieblog.page/
Love this! RSS is alive and well! Going to try and integrate this into my personal RSS Tinder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680013
I had a Journalism Innovation class in uni in which we had to come up with a news startup idea, and this is exactly what I pitched! Nice to see someone's made it.
I was surprised to find my blog there. I did a git blame on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb and it was in the initial commit, so I guess I'll never find out...
Great! And funny too, just posted about my personal take on the same topic: https://squeaki.sh/p/i-turned-my-website-into-my-feed-reader...
It's nice to have a lot of small web content laid out like this! Some suggestions to make discovery more palatable:
- 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)
We don't have a RSS Feed yet, but the alivenet will welcome your visit - https://vvesh.de
I've allegedly been blocked by Cloudflare, despite accessing from an Australian residential IP..
Unless you're geoblocking?
Since "best" is subjective maybe give a description of the kind of content you hope to feature and why you think it's important.
This could be an interesting answer to "what sites are like Hacker News but with more diverse topics". All you'd need is a upvotes/downvotes and a comments section.
I really like it! Sometimes I just want to read something random and sampling from small personal websites is a great way to discover new people to follow.
.social domain has a negative connotation nowadays.
I don't think that's universal, I don't have a negative association with it.
Love this, bookmarked.