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1 [1] annie's blog 2 3 [2]annie's blog 4 5 [3]👋 Hello! [4]✍️ Guestbook [5]👊 Blog [6]🫶 Micro 6 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7 8 How to do the RSS 9 10 This is a simple guide for people who are not super tech-oriented. 11 12 I like the recent [7]You should be using an RSS reader article that’s being 13 shared. 14 15 And I think we need a simple little guide for people who might read that 16 article and think, Yeah. Good idea. I should do that. 17 18 And then they might think, Huh, how exactly do I do that, again? 19 20 RSS isn’t complicated. But if you’re not at all familiar with it, it’s not 21 easily apparent. 22 23 So here’s a little guide to get started with RSS. 24 25 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26 27 The very short version 28 29 1. Sign up for an RSS reader. I use Feedbin. [8]Go sign up. You get a free 30 month, then it’s $5/month. Don’t bitch about the price. Cancel something 31 you don’t use, like that food tracking app or that one Substack you never 32 read. 33 34 2. Open a site you like to read. Look for RSS or Feeds in the menu or find the 35 RSS icon. Sometimes it’s in the footer. Sometimes it’s difficult to find. 36 37 An image with caption: The RSS icon. Might not be orange! The RSS icon. 38 Might not be orange! 39 40 3. Right click on the RSS icon or the RSS/Feed option, once you find it, and 41 copy the link. 42 43 4. Go back to Feedbin, click the +Add button in the bottom left, paste in the 44 link, and hit Enter. 45 46 5. Feedbin will pop up a little dialog with the feed title. Confirm you want 47 to add the feed by clicking the blue Add button. 48 49 Repeat steps 2 through 5 to add more sites and blogs and cool stuff to your 50 RSS reader. 51 52 Now for the longer version. 53 54 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 55 56 What is RSS 57 58 RSS is your own personal feed of cool stuff from the Internet made by cool 59 people you want to hear from. 60 61 It’s a little bit like what Facebook was when it started, although it came long 62 before social media. 63 64 We could call it the original social media. In fact, I think we will. From now 65 on. I will, anyway. You do what you want. 66 67 Anyhow, social media was useful and cool at first because you got to connect 68 with people you knew in real life or found interesting and then their stuff 69 would show up in your timeline, and you could see everybody’s stuff all in one 70 handy feed. 71 72 Social media has become such an ad-congested, algorithmed experience that it’s 73 pretty much useless if you want to actually see the stuff made and shared by 74 the people you actually care about. 75 76 Which brings us back to RSS. 77 78 RSS lets you build your own little Internet feed. You add the people you like 79 and you get a continually automatically updated stream of things you’re 80 interested in from people you want to hear from. No ads or interventions or 81 intrusions or extraneous junk that doesn’t belong there. 82 83 How to set up RSS 84 85 First up, you need an RSS reader. There are so many. Free ones and paid ones, 86 old ones and new ones. Of course nothing else will ever come close to the 87 original* and the best, my one true love, Google Reader, which honestly wasn’t 88 that special but it holds a special place in my heart. Miss you, baby. 89 90 Anyway there are lots. But you don’t need lots. You need just one. 91 92 Step 1: Sign up for an RSS reader. 93 94 There are many options. They are all basically the same, honestly. Don’t 95 overthink it. You can switch this up later if you want. 96 97 Go read [9]this article and pick one of the options, then sign up for one. 98 99 Are you mad that you might have to pay a small subscription fee? Don’t be. Be 100 glad. Paying for something means you’re the consumer, not the product. On 101 Facebook, etc., you’re the product being sold to advertisers, so you don’t have 102 to pay. 103 104 Also, get real. It’s like, $5 to $10 a month. You can do this. I believe in 105 you. 106 107 Step 2: Add feeds to your reader. 108 109 There are two ways to do this. 110 111 First: Search for the people/sites/blogs in your RSS reader of choice. Look for 112 the Add/find/subscribe option somewhere in your reader. Most modern readers 113 have some sort of functionality to sniff out the RSS feeds for you. Try it. See 114 what you can find. 115 116 Second: Open the sites and blogs you want to read and look for their RSS feeds. 117 Some sites make it really easy to find and some don’t. Some sites have multiple 118 feeds to choose from. 119 120 Step 3: Get the app for your RSS reader of choice. 121 122 Because let’s be real, you’re mostly going to read these on your phone. Which 123 is fine. 124 125 Step 4: Repeat step 2 anytime you discover a new site/blog/person you like and 126 want to follow. 127 128 That’s it. You create a customized feed of your own choosing, with the things 129 you like and the people who are interesting to you, and you can read them at 130 your leisure, and they won’t get buried in the timeline by the algorithm. 131 They’ll be there when you want them. And you can remove any that get boring. 132 You’re in control. 133 134 By the way, here’s [10]my RSS feed. 135 136 Okay, go do it! Get to RSSing! 137 138 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 139 140 *Don’t @ me with your timelines and argumentation about why it isn’t the real 141 original, I don’t care. 142 143 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 144 Published October 17, 2024 145 [11] 146 Subscribe via RSS 147 [12] 148 Back to all blog posts [13]PIKA 149 150 References: 151 152 [1] https://anniemueller.com/ 153 [2] https://anniemueller.com/ 154 [3] https://annie.omg.lol/ 155 [4] https://anniemueller.com/guestbook 156 [5] https://anniemueller.com/posts 157 [6] https://annie.micro.blog/ 158 [7] https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise 159 [8] https://feedbin.com/ 160 [9] https://www.wired.com/story/best-rss-feed-readers/ 161 [10] https://anniemueller.com/posts_feed 162 [11] https://anniemueller.com/posts_feed 163 [12] https://anniemueller.com/posts 164 [13] https://pika.page/?utm_source=pika_blog&utm_medium=pika_footer_branding