No algorithms, no filtering, a protocol not a platform. Libre and gratis. Subscribe to what you want.

Install an RSS reader on your operating system and bang a load of feeds into it. It'll take you ten minutes.

Maybe install QuiteRSS, it's libre: https://quiterss.org/en/download

Lots of normie sites have RSS:

  • Tumblr example: https://whereiseefashion.tumblr.com/rss

  • Youtube/invidious example: https://invidious.snopyta.org/feed/channel/UCQYcCfKYfYMcuCsem8z5CyQ

  • Reddit example: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanesejazz/.rss

  • Twitter/Nitter example: https://nitter.cc/debbiebookchin/rss

SOME LEFTIE NEWS

  • http://geo.coop/rss.xml
  • https://workersparadise.org/feed
  • http://jineoloji.org/rss
  • https://itsgoingdown.org/feed
  • https://therealnews.com/feed
  • https://newsocialist.org.uk/rss
  • https://www.wsws.org/en/rss.xml
  • https://orinocotribune.com/feed
  • https://cosmonaut.blog/rss
  • https://newleftreview.org/feed
  • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/feed
  • https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/feed
  • https://libcom.org/rss.xml/feed
  • https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/feed
  • https://newrepublic.com/rss.xml
  • tetrabrick [xey/xem, she/her]
    ·
    4 years ago

    some more rss i follow if you want more

    • https://medium.com/feed/@probonopd
    • https://medium.com/feed/@sunfeiyang
    • https://radiichina.com/feed/
    • https://www.arianalife.com/feed/
    • https://www.scmp.com/rss/318198/feed
    • https://www.scmp.com/rss/318200/feed
    • https://www.scmp.com/rss/318421/feed
    • https://www.scmp.com/rss/318202/feed
    • https://www.scmp.com/rss/91/feed
    • https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/feed/
    • https://www.technologyreview.com/feed/
    • https://www.invent-the-future.org/feed/
    • https://www.vice.com/en/rss?locale=en_us
    • https://www.mango-press.com/feed/
    • https://www.invent-the-future.org/feed/
    • https://www.currentaffairs.org/feed
    • https://lausan.hk/feed/
    • https://mronline.org/feed/
    • https://lemmy.ml/feeds/ THIS IS CUSTOM
    • https://nataliaantonova.substack.com/feed
    • https://steamcommunity.com/groups/GrabFreeGames/rss/
    • https://kevingal.com/feed.xml
    • https://mcmansionhell.com/rss
    • https://regenerationmag.org/feed/
    • https://www.archpaper.com/feed
    • https://yasha.substack.com/feed
    • http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/feed/

    In Spanish

    • https://www.eldiario.es/rss/
    • https://www.elsaltodiario.com/general/feed
    • https://www.elsaltodiario.com/la-semana-politica/feed
    • https://www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/feed
    • https://www.publico.es/rss/
    • https://www.infolibre.es/uploads/rss/contenidos.xml
    • https://www.eldiario.es/rss/opinion/zona-critica/
    • https://www.telesurtv.net/rss/RssLatinoamerica.html
    • https://www.muylinux.com/feed/
    • Lrak [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I really fucking hope substack gets their heads out their ass and provide a seperate rss feed for subscriber feeds. it's okay to get my daily foreign exchanges brief via email but I would prefer my rss reader. also: fx.substack.com/feed

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Hey, in light of the Woody Allen stuff, will you take WSWS off your leftie news list?

  • eduardog3000 [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Honestly every RSS reader I've looked at kinda sucks. I think it might be the common design philosophy of a) splitting up feeds so you are only looking at one feed at a time and b) showing feed items like they are emails that need to be clicked on and opened in a separate pane.

    I want an RSS reader that functions more like Twitter or even this site, but just in chronological order, not an email inbox.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          RSS readers for desktop tend to be kinda meh. I think Firefox has something with bookmarks that kinda works? All the best ones seem to be mobile centers now though.

          • eduardog3000 [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            I think Firefox has something with bookmarks that kinda works?

            Looked it up and they killed it in December 2018 lmao

            At this point I'm seriously considering trying to make my own thing in React or Angular or something.

    • Lrak [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      don't know what devices you are on but reeder can do exactly that.

  • MoralisticCommunist [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    I have RSS Reader on my phone and like 100 news websites divided up by region of the world and it's my primary way to get international news. They are all mainstream sources so it's not hard to find their RSS feeds, just search something like "Brussels Times RSS" and you will get their feed. If people are interested I could try and post some links of feeds I follow for a specific region like Europe, East Asia, Oceania, etc

    • sailorfish [she/her]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Um I think you meant to tag someone else? Cuttlefish maybe? Not a mod here haha

        • sailorfish [she/her]
          ·
          4 years ago

          No worries I also find it confusing enough I had a moment of "oh my, can I do that? 😀😀😀😀"

  • quartz242 [she/her]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Anyone have some good photojournalist RSS or image ones?

    Picked up some of the earthporn ones but would love recommendations.

    Thanks so much for this, took 25min to set this up on my tablet and it's amazing.

    The nail in my reddit use coffin

    • BumpInTheNight [none/use name]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I kinda like https://www.reddit.com/r/itookapicture/ for general pictures.

      Also Tumblr has a lot of good visual blogs.

  • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
    ·
    4 years ago

    I remember I was trying to get RSS to work when I decided to quit reddit but it looked like I'd have to pay to have a good one. This is good info ty

  • Slurry [any]
    ·
    4 years ago

    I installed QuiteRSS (Win 10) and subscribed to the Pussy Riot feed. However clicking the video ("On ABC...", also tried "We've seen authoritarian tendencies...") crashes the app. QuiteRSS also forgets all subscriptions after crashing. App also looks a bit shit (sorry).

    • mittens [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I did a quick google search and found this which looks pretty decent, but it's also an electron app which means it'll be a RAM hog, good news it's an electron app so it'll probably do whatever you expect a browser to do.

      • Slurry [any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Thanks! I tried the New Left Review. Fluent pulled the top paragraph but nothing else. Switched to "load full content", got an error screen ("memory parse error"). Switched to "webpage", got nothing :) However, the New Republic actually works! Can do text only, full content, and webpage. Some articles are still a bit janky on Load Full Content ("Parallax Ghazal", "So Far").

        Gonna see if it'll handle a HistoryMarche youtube sub, might actually switch if so

        Edit: So I found the magic line is

        https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

        which, with the channel IDs from Comment Picker (for HistoryMarche, that's UC8MX9ECowgDMTOnFTE8EUJw ), actually added the channel to Fluent! Nice. Though it needed to be full webpage, rather than Load Content. Which had the unfortunate side effect of reintroducing Google's pop-ups... and the ads. Usually caught by Firefox's Enhancer for YouTube add-on.

        • mittens [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          Damn that kind of sucks, I tried with current affairs and it actually works pretty great, I guess that kind of shit depends a lot on how the target webpage is loaded. I tried with a youtube feed link (though I'm pulling the feed directly from youtube like so: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[CHANNEL_ID]) and the results are a bit mediocre, though it does allow you to play youtube videos using the load webpage button. The real bummer is that it's optimized for windows, and it tries to open edge when I want to view stuff from a browser. Oh well.

          Oh you had already discovered all that youtube stuff on your own lol. If you can get mpv and youtube-dl working on windows, you can launch a standalone player with no ads, since they're loaded separately. If only you could customize the open externally button per url scheme to launch mpv when selecting a youtube link, then it'd be a really sweet youtube viewer. Alas.