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Blogs are Back: easily follow website and blog RSS feeds with one-click
Subscribing to RSS feeds is my preferred option for following websites, but for people unfamiliar with the really simple syndication system, doing so can be daunting.
I've long thought subscribing to a website needs to be as easy as following someone on a social network. Tap the follow button to follow, and you're following.
But following a RSS feed — doubtless something anyone reading this post could do in their sleep — isn't necessarily straightforward. People first require a […]
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Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards
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In this episode of the Fediverse Flows series, host Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms.
These weeks in #FDroid (TWIF) is live and updated. If you saw it an hour earlier via #RSS, look again:
* #AntennaPod timers
* #AuroraStore #MaterialDesign3, you're still tied to #BigTech and #Google? 🙄
* #FairScan good "intents"
* #Fennec redesign
* #LibreCamera better support
* #Meshtastic comms freedom
* #NeoStore rotates mirrors
* #NewPipe #Litube fixes
* #Syncthing Fork verify update
* #WebLibre backup
+ 40 new apps
& 295 updates
- 6 archived
...and more, here: https://f-droid.org/2026/01/16/twif.html
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- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Aujourd'hui dimanche 11 janvier 2026 hommage à Aaron Swartz (né le 8 novembre 1986 à Highland Park, près de Chicago, et mort le 11 janvier 2013 à New York) fervent partisan de la liberté numérique, il consacre sa vie à la défense de la « culture libre », convaincu que l'accès à la connaissance est un moyen d'émancipation et de justice.
- http://www.aaronsw.com/
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
- https://mastodon.social/@AaronSwartzDay
- https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/03/one-of-you/
- https://www.aaronswartzday.org/
- https://github.com/aaronsw
- https://www.youtube.com/@aaronswartzday4568/videos
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Aujourd'hui dimanche 11 janvier 2026 hommage à Aaron Swartz (né le 8 novembre 1986 à Highland Park, près de Chicago, et mort le 11 janvier 2013 à New York) fervent partisan de la liberté numérique, il consacre sa vie à la défense de la « culture libre », convaincu que l'accès à la connaissance est un moyen d'émancipation et de justice.
- http://www.aaronsw.com/
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
- https://mastodon.social/@AaronSwartzDay
- https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/03/one-of-you/
- https://www.aaronswartzday.org/
- https://github.com/aaronsw
- https://www.youtube.com/@aaronswartzday4568/videos
Between cheers and chores, last week in #FDroid (LWIF) was live last year:
* #AFWall modernized
* more #FadCam performance
* #FLOSS device benchmarking
* #kitshn 2 for #Tandoor 2
* #NWS 2 redesign
* #ShotsStudio w/ #MaterialDesign
+ 11 new apps
& 176 updates
If you've not read it by #RSS, you can here: https://f-droid.org/2025/12/26/twif.html
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Recommend blogs in the WordPress.com Reader
Over at WordPress.com, we recently added a new feature to the WordPress.com Reader. You can now build a list of blogs you like, and recommend them to others.
Here is how one can access recommended blogs, on the web and via the WordPress.com REST API
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WordPress Reader Is Criminally Under Marketed
I must admit that I’ve known about Reader, which is the WordPress.com tool for following blogs, for years now, but never realised it worked for sites that were not hosted on WordPress infrastructure. It actually allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and import OPML files.
When you follow as many sites and blogs as I do, a good RSS Reader is the only way to fly.
I only discovered this functionality today when I decided to have a poke around after spying a post about a new feature called “Recommended Blogs”. It’s essentially a blogroll for your Reader profile.
Now I feel like a bit of an idiot for ignoring Reader for the past few years. Not only can I import all of my subscriptions from my current RSS reader, but I can easily reblog (republish or quote) parts of them on my own blog directly from within the interface, and can even write a post from within the feed.
I don’t have to switch to another service to find content to write about, and it’s all available on the web and in the Jetpack app on my phone.
I’m going to have to spend a few days actually using it as my main RSS reader to decide if the convenience is worth jumping ship for, but for now, I’m pretty impressed.
It needs a dark mode, though.
WordPress Reader Is Criminally Under Marketed
I must admit that I’ve known about Reader, which is the WordPress.com tool for following blogs, for years now, but never realised it worked for sites that were not hosted on WordPress infrastructure. It actually allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and import OPML files.
When you follow as many sites and blogs as I do, a good RSS Reader is the only way to fly.
I only discovered this functionality today when I decided to have a poke around after spying a post about a new feature called “Recommended Blogs”. It’s essentially a blogroll for your Reader profile.
Now I feel like a bit of an idiot for ignoring Reader for the past few years. Not only can I import all of my subscriptions from my current RSS reader, but I can easily reblog (republish or quote) parts of them on my own blog directly from within the interface, and can even write a post from within the feed.
I don’t have to switch to another service to find content to write about, and it’s all available on the web and in the Jetpack app on my phone.
I’m going to have to spend a few days actually using it as my main RSS reader to decide if the convenience is worth jumping ship for, but for now, I’m pretty impressed.
It needs a dark mode, though.
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Recommend blogs in the WordPress.com Reader
Over at WordPress.com, we recently added a new feature to the WordPress.com Reader. You can now build a list of blogs you like, and recommend them to others.
Here is how one can access recommended blogs, on the web and via the WordPress.com REST API
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Do you like RSS, Python, and web development? Do you want to start contributing to FLOSS?
This is my personal RSS reader (running locally only), opened as a FLOSS project. There's a lot that I plan to add to it, but I don't have so much time for now. However, it might be interesting to some folks, at least for learning purposes. So, here it goes.
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7.5.0 — Follow the Feed, Quote the Lead
We’re back with a fresh release, and this one makes following and sharing smoother than ever—plus gives you more control over how your posts can be quoted.
Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards
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https://openchannels.fm/exploring-wordpress-textcasting-and-open-web-standards/
In this episode of the Fediverse Flows series, host Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms.
Amy Remeikis powerful piece has been taken down but because it is so powerful I’m tooting a link to it. If you believe that life is for every individual, then do yourself a favour and read it too
@RaymondPierreL3@aus.social Thank you for posting this. I feel gyped that my #RSS feedreader did not get me the original before it vanished. Who took it offline? On what basis? Surely TND did not succumb to Merkan micro-penii thugs, did they?
#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #LGBTQIA+ #GenderDysphoria #Transmisia #Transphobia #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #TransRepresentation #transwoman #transwomen #transkids
Do you like RSS, Python, and web development? Do you want to start contributing to FLOSS?
This is my personal RSS reader (running locally only), opened as a FLOSS project. There's a lot that I plan to add to it, but I don't have so much time for now. However, it might be interesting to some folks, at least for learning purposes. So, here it goes.