2020-09-26 21:21:49 +00:00
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title: Syndication for the greater good
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description: Where I setup an Atom feed
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I stumbled upon Matt Webb's `About Feeds <https://aboutfeeds.com/>`_ and
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2020-09-27 13:49:45 +00:00
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realized I had been missing out on the power of web syndication for quite some
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2020-09-26 21:21:49 +00:00
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time. Turns out most sites still make their feed available in one way or
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another. This allows anyone to subscribe to the content they are interested in
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without having to rely on a centralized platform. No more checking out one's
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twitter feed to see if they published a new piece, you get notified in due time
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automatically.
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One reason I never used RSS feeds before was that I never quite found the
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right newsreader app, one able to sync between devices, open-sourced and
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self-hostable. But then I discovered `miniflux
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<https://https://miniflux.app/>`_. I've now setup an instance over at
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`miniflux.acatalepsie.fr <https://miniflux.acatalepsie.fr>`_, running on the
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same RPi that hosts my site. There's even `an Android app
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<https://github.com/ConstantinCezB/Microflux>`_. What a world.
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The next logical step was to setup a feed for my site itself, which I did *just
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now*. You can find the link in the footer of this site. It's only the bare
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minimum as it only shows blog entries --- more to come.
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The takeaway is: do take the time to download a newsreader app and subscribe to
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feeds, it will be worth your while. Now, onto making blog posts which are not
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about the blog itself.
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