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)
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
Good to see more projects plugging into Kagi Small Web.
It has been a passion project of mine since inception and just recently reached over 2000 commits, adding about 10 new websites every day (around 29,000 total at the moment).
It is also the first thing open in my browser every morning.
You can view these blogs visually at https://kagi.com/smallweb and content from all of them is surfaced high in Kagi search results (when relevant).
This is really cool, but what on earth do you do with it? It would be a full time job to read all the posts from this stream, and their titles are not editorialized like on HN, so it's much harder to filter by title.
I tried building an RSS library feature for a side project (https://beavergrow.com), mostly as a way to curate feeds I actually enjoy reading. It quickly highlighted how fragile the RSS ecosystem has become Feedburner gone, Google slowly de-emphasizing RSS, and discovery being the hardest part now.
RSS still feels like one of the few genuinely user-controlled ways to follow the web, but keeping it usable today seems to depend almost entirely on community curation. Curious how others here handle feed discovery now.
Can someone explain how to read such a feed where a new article appears every couple of minutes? I'm trying to make it easier to find new articles from personal blogs on weblogs.ai and am surprised by the attention to rss.social, even though it's objectively inconvenient to use.
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- checks for included feeds that they are correctly configured and the resources load in-browser (not download a random file to my computer)
Shameless plug: for randomly discovering IndieBlogs check out https://indieblog.page/
I find the small web feed too noisy without it.
[0]: https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed
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.
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
Make it an RSS feed of RSS feeds. That's still kind of contrary to the spirit of RSS because you are centralizing.
It has been a passion project of mine since inception and just recently reached over 2000 commits, adding about 10 new websites every day (around 29,000 total at the moment).
It is also the first thing open in my browser every morning.
You can view these blogs visually at https://kagi.com/smallweb and content from all of them is surfaced high in Kagi search results (when relevant).
RSS still feels like one of the few genuinely user-controlled ways to follow the web, but keeping it usable today seems to depend almost entirely on community curation. Curious how others here handle feed discovery now.
But seriously, Mastodon, etc. are cool, but there's gotta be a way we can augment RSS to get most of what we want?
It's mostly focused on tech-related blogs, though. A place to find good articles from fellow developers.
There are some extra features on top of it. Like semantic search, remixing rss feeds into a single one are some of my favorites.