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RSS Feeds Make Reading Fun Again, Mostly Distraction- and Provocation-Free

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Summary: RSS feeds aren't about selling you stuff and manipulating/swaying you in some other direction (like click-bait inside timelines and sidebars, a de facto 'noise machine'), for they compete on grounds like reliability rather than clicks or "screen time", so you can concentrate on what's really going on, in general, and what you currently read; today we share an up-to-date list of RSS feeds for Free software and BSD/GNU/Linux

THE Web is a very, very noisy place and many people fail to realise just how noisy it is (unless they take a 'break' or choose alternative means, including RSS instead of Web pages). Sure, most RSS feeds are still HTTP/S and HTML, but that too may change over time because of Gemini protocol (gemini://) and some work in progress towards standardising syndication/aggregation. The links below say more about why RSS is so much better:





"The end goal is to take control back from companies that censor/filter news."The previous video explained why society would likely be better off with RSS, not centralised platforms many know as social control media (a consolidation plot/agenda, much like clown computing).

Young readerTo get the ball rolling, for those who aren't already using RSS readers, added below is a long list of RSS feeds and their respective sites. About 460 feeds are listed, for sites/URLs which aren't endorsements but just a raw list (feed name/title typically just derived from the feed, not manually improved/completed). Some of them may no longer work, but I typically delete those that stop working, so this list ought to be mostly current.

The end goal is to take control back from companies that censor/filter news. To become independent or liberated from sources of potential abuse (of power), or for autonomy/self-governance over one's reading (no "algorithms" and "hey hi" in the middle) we really ought to adopt this approach and encourage others to do the same. Google and its sponsored proxies (including Mozilla) won't help people adopt RSS feeds; they actively sabotage existing support for it. It doesn't suit the agenda of advertisers.

For those who want to follow us or syndicate over Gemini (gemini://), use gemini://gemini.techrights.org/feed/ with an archive in gemini://gemini.techrights.org/daily-feed/ or IPFS index in Gemini at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ipfs/ (corresponding to text or HTML index over HTTP).

Is RSS technology, combined with self-hosting, the 'vaccine' against oligarchs-led 'cancel culture'? They wish to surgically remove critical voices; centralisation makes that incredibly easy/easier, bringing audience to infinitesimally low levels with the flick of a button or a phonecall.

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