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[1] annie's blog
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[2]annie's blog
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[3]👋 Hello! [4]✍️ Guestbook [5]👊 Blog [6]🫶 Micro
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How to do the RSS
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This is a simple guide for people who are not super tech-oriented.
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I like the recent [7]You should be using an RSS reader article that’s being
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shared.
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And I think we need a simple little guide for people who might read that
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article and think, Yeah. Good idea. I should do that.
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And then they might think, Huh, how exactly do I do that, again?
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RSS isn’t complicated. But if you’re not at all familiar with it, it’s not
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easily apparent.
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So here’s a little guide to get started with RSS.
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The very short version
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1. Sign up for an RSS reader. I use Feedbin. [8]Go sign up. You get a free
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month, then it’s $5/month. Don’t bitch about the price. Cancel something
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you don’t use, like that food tracking app or that one Substack you never
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read.
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2. Open a site you like to read. Look for RSS or Feeds in the menu or find the
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RSS icon. Sometimes it’s in the footer. Sometimes it’s difficult to find.
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An image with caption: The RSS icon. Might not be orange! The RSS icon.
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Might not be orange!
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3. Right click on the RSS icon or the RSS/Feed option, once you find it, and
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copy the link.
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4. Go back to Feedbin, click the +Add button in the bottom left, paste in the
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link, and hit Enter.
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5. Feedbin will pop up a little dialog with the feed title. Confirm you want
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to add the feed by clicking the blue Add button.
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Repeat steps 2 through 5 to add more sites and blogs and cool stuff to your
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RSS reader.
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Now for the longer version.
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What is RSS
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RSS is your own personal feed of cool stuff from the Internet made by cool
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people you want to hear from.
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It’s a little bit like what Facebook was when it started, although it came long
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before social media.
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We could call it the original social media. In fact, I think we will. From now
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on. I will, anyway. You do what you want.
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Anyhow, social media was useful and cool at first because you got to connect
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with people you knew in real life or found interesting and then their stuff
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would show up in your timeline, and you could see everybody’s stuff all in one
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handy feed.
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Social media has become such an ad-congested, algorithmed experience that it’s
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pretty much useless if you want to actually see the stuff made and shared by
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the people you actually care about.
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Which brings us back to RSS.
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RSS lets you build your own little Internet feed. You add the people you like
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and you get a continually automatically updated stream of things you’re
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interested in from people you want to hear from. No ads or interventions or
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intrusions or extraneous junk that doesn’t belong there.
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How to set up RSS
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First up, you need an RSS reader. There are so many. Free ones and paid ones,
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old ones and new ones. Of course nothing else will ever come close to the
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original* and the best, my one true love, Google Reader, which honestly wasn’t
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that special but it holds a special place in my heart. Miss you, baby.
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Anyway there are lots. But you don’t need lots. You need just one.
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Step 1: Sign up for an RSS reader.
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There are many options. They are all basically the same, honestly. Don’t
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overthink it. You can switch this up later if you want.
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Go read [9]this article and pick one of the options, then sign up for one.
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Are you mad that you might have to pay a small subscription fee? Don’t be. Be
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glad. Paying for something means you’re the consumer, not the product. On
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Facebook, etc., you’re the product being sold to advertisers, so you don’t have
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to pay.
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Also, get real. It’s like, $5 to $10 a month. You can do this. I believe in
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you.
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Step 2: Add feeds to your reader.
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There are two ways to do this.
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First: Search for the people/sites/blogs in your RSS reader of choice. Look for
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the Add/find/subscribe option somewhere in your reader. Most modern readers
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have some sort of functionality to sniff out the RSS feeds for you. Try it. See
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what you can find.
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Second: Open the sites and blogs you want to read and look for their RSS feeds.
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Some sites make it really easy to find and some don’t. Some sites have multiple
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feeds to choose from.
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Step 3: Get the app for your RSS reader of choice.
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Because let’s be real, you’re mostly going to read these on your phone. Which
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is fine.
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Step 4: Repeat step 2 anytime you discover a new site/blog/person you like and
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want to follow.
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That’s it. You create a customized feed of your own choosing, with the things
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you like and the people who are interesting to you, and you can read them at
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your leisure, and they won’t get buried in the timeline by the algorithm.
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They’ll be there when you want them. And you can remove any that get boring.
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You’re in control.
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By the way, here’s [10]my RSS feed.
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Okay, go do it! Get to RSSing!
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*Don’t @ me with your timelines and argumentation about why it isn’t the real
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original, I don’t care.
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Published October 17, 2024
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References:
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[1] https://anniemueller.com/
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[2] https://anniemueller.com/
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[3] https://annie.omg.lol/
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[4] https://anniemueller.com/guestbook
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[5] https://anniemueller.com/posts
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[6] https://annie.micro.blog/
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[7] https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise
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[8] https://feedbin.com/
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[9] https://www.wired.com/story/best-rss-feed-readers/
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[10] https://anniemueller.com/posts_feed
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[11] https://anniemueller.com/posts_feed
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[12] https://anniemueller.com/posts
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