The kagi smallweb site has an alternative feed that is less high traffic that only includes appreciated (liked) articles. It's not ideal for a lot of people since it's still pretty high traffic and not a lot of users use the main site with the button to appreciate things.
https://kagi.com/smallweb/appreciated
You can find a few alt feeds for the kagi small web by going to the site and clicking the top right rss button. There are ones for videos, code and comics and a link to the full opml file.
https://kagi.com/smallweb
Btw is there an rss feed for the hn smallweb one?
q-base 5 hours ago [-]
I did not know about that feature - thanks a lot for sharing!
rainallday 4 hours ago [-]
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ilaksh 34 minutes ago [-]
Isn't this the opposite of RSS? Isn't the point that instead of going to one centralized server to get feeds you subscribe to the actual source feeds?
Make it an RSS feed of RSS feeds. That's still kind of contrary to the spirit of RSS because you are centralizing.
splitbrain 6 hours ago [-]
Learn how it works. -> This page is incomplete
A pity. It's obvious what the "latest" would be, but what is the best? How is that decided?
Not a wide in the number of sources (yet), but I'm curating a directory/reader/search engine of personal blogs, and the "Global" view shows the latest posts across 1300+ feeds: https://minifeed.net/global
7777777phil 1 hours ago [-]
Super cool, I might want to connect this to my swipe engine [1] (see comment below). Since you have already curated so many feeds this is the source I was looking for (and trying to build myself [2]). I’ll shoot you an email.
Neat, stuff that makes it easier to find small, independent content is great!
Others in the comments also linked aggregators.
I think what's missing a bit in the indie web, is a bit of curation. I think, it'd be great if we had something like music labels, or book publishers, that have a certain taste, and publish certain things. Or on spotify, there are these playlists where new music gets listed, but hand curated by someone with a particular taste.
I want something like that. I want something like a digital magazine, sourced from blog posts, about a particular topic. Hand curated! Not with automatic topic extraction or whatever. That would be cool to have.
postalcoder 3 hours ago [-]
Agreed. There’s a missing layer of curation/discovery that I’d love to see some experimentation on. The small web needs a small structure.
I had a Journalism Innovation class in uni in which we had to come up with a news startup idea, and this is exactly what I pitched! Nice to see someone's made it.
7777777phil 2 hours ago [-]
Nice! Was also thinking about how this could be a way to bring more people back to “traditional” media. But with the current paywalls it’s really hard to implement. Once you click on an article you potentially like your currently unable to read it…
NicuCalcea 1 hours ago [-]
I was considering it at the time, my idea was to offer a subscription that would redistribute revenue to publishers in exchange for skipping the paywall. This was all a hypothetical plan for a class, of course, and other attempts at bundling news subscriptions have failed. Most existing news aggregators just show a headline and standfirst, and that seems to work.
Another concern was reinforcing bias. You'd need to show people articles about things they care about, but at the same time, you don't want to put people in bubbles. It's a pretty tough balance to strike.
7777777phil 1 hours ago [-]
Yes makes sense probably easier said than done, you would need at least one big publisher on your side to begin with.
Regarding bias, I’m current using a 70/30 exploitation/exploration split and add time weighting onto that. So you should always have ~3 new articles outside your “bubble” per 10 articles you swipe.
It's nice to have a lot of small web content laid out like this! Some suggestions to make discovery more palatable:
- 1-2 sentence summaries for the content. most titles are not sufficiently descriptive and clicking on something un-interesting a few times is a sure fire way to get folks to churn
- checks for included feeds that they are correctly configured and the resources load in-browser (not download a random file to my computer)
tasuki 3 hours ago [-]
I was surprised to find my blog there. I did a git blame on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb and it was in the initial commit, so I guess I'll never find out...
freediver 2 minutes ago [-]
It is explained on that very page :)
october8140 6 hours ago [-]
Since "best" is subjective maybe give a description of the kind of content you hope to feature and why you think it's important.
We don't have a RSS Feed yet, but the alivenet will welcome your visit - https://vvesh.de
hsx 4 hours ago [-]
I've allegedly been blocked by Cloudflare, despite accessing from an Australian residential IP..
Unless you're geoblocking?
sam_lowry_ 5 hours ago [-]
.social domain has a negative connotation nowadays.
fhennig 3 hours ago [-]
I don't think that's universal, I don't have a negative association with it.
q-base 6 hours ago [-]
I really like it! Sometimes I just want to read something random and sampling from small personal websites is a great way to discover new people to follow.
alex1138 2 hours ago [-]
It's kind of amazing we've forgotten the rest of the web exists
Everything now is either facebook.com, google.com or cnn.com (not exactly specifically that, but you know)
It used to be this wild, almost untamed thing. Or what I'm trying to say is it's boring now
matthew-craig 2 hours ago [-]
This could be an interesting answer to "what sites are like Hacker News but with more diverse topics". All you'd need is a upvotes/downvotes and a comments section.
markoa 5 hours ago [-]
Love this, bookmarked.
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I find the small web feed too noisy without it.
[0]: https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed
You can find a few alt feeds for the kagi small web by going to the site and clicking the top right rss button. There are ones for videos, code and comics and a link to the full opml file. https://kagi.com/smallweb
Btw is there an rss feed for the hn smallweb one?
Make it an RSS feed of RSS feeds. That's still kind of contrary to the spirit of RSS because you are centralizing.
Shameless plug: for randomly discovering IndieBlogs check out https://indieblog.page/
[1] https://philippdubach.com/standalone/rss-tinder/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602227
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602227
Others in the comments also linked aggregators.
I think what's missing a bit in the indie web, is a bit of curation. I think, it'd be great if we had something like music labels, or book publishers, that have a certain taste, and publish certain things. Or on spotify, there are these playlists where new music gets listed, but hand curated by someone with a particular taste.
I want something like that. I want something like a digital magazine, sourced from blog posts, about a particular topic. Hand curated! Not with automatic topic extraction or whatever. That would be cool to have.
Another concern was reinforcing bias. You'd need to show people articles about things they care about, but at the same time, you don't want to put people in bubbles. It's a pretty tough balance to strike.
Regarding bias, I’m current using a 70/30 exploitation/exploration split and add time weighting onto that. So you should always have ~3 new articles outside your “bubble” per 10 articles you swipe.
- 1-2 sentence summaries for the content. most titles are not sufficiently descriptive and clicking on something un-interesting a few times is a sure fire way to get folks to churn
- checks for included feeds that they are correctly configured and the resources load in-browser (not download a random file to my computer)
Unless you're geoblocking?
Everything now is either facebook.com, google.com or cnn.com (not exactly specifically that, but you know)
It used to be this wild, almost untamed thing. Or what I'm trying to say is it's boring now