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Blogger discovers this cool thing called "RSS".

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[โ€“] Cargon@lemmy.ml 25 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

How do you all discover new RSS feeds to subscribe to?

[โ€“] baatliwala@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I use Feedly for discovery, they have a crap load of websites you can subscribe to even if the websites don't explicitly advertise RSS.

And then use the Feedly desktop website to get the actual RSS URL and put it in the client of your choice ๐Ÿ™ƒ

My way is simple and stupid. I hit F12, then search for โ€œrssโ€ in the html and copy the link

Most of the feeds I subscribe to came to me in one of two ways:

  1. I enjoyed reading an article posted somewhere else (Lemmy, etc.) so I sought out the feed of that publisher.
  2. Sometimes news outlets enter into agreements to republish each others articles. When they do this, the re-publisher will usually include a little blurb at the end giving credit to the original publisher. If a feed I'm already subscribed to has an article re-published from elsewhere then I click through and check out the original source to see if I want to follow them as well.
[โ€“] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

I use an extension that searches the code on the page to find them. It puts a little number up, then when you click it you can copy the link.

[โ€“] Darohan@lemmy.zip 15 points 13 hours ago

Kagi Small Web, personally. Also a lot of people who blog on the Fediverse have RSS feeds, so discovery via Mastodon and such is good too.

[โ€“] grte@lemmy.ca 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wordpress sites publish an rss feed by default at site.com/rss or site.com/feed, so there's a good chance a site you want an rss feed for has one even if they didn't intend to.

[โ€“] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

After spending lots of time trying to find feeds, learning this was super helpful

[โ€“] freeman@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I use an Browser Addon that searches for RSS feeds, still a bit finiky sometimes but still better than manually guessing URLs