#informationtrapping — Public Fediverse posts

Lifehacker: You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. “You may know that Reddit can be a treasure trove of useful information and opinion, and that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a clean and straightforward way to keep up with what’s happening on the web—but you might not be aware that you can combine both Reddit and RSS in numerous ways.”

The Register: RSS dulls the pain of the modern web . “Last week, Caroline Crampton’s blog post, The View from RSS really caught our attention, helped by its subtitle: What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds. We were not the only ones who it grabbed: at the weekend, Cory Doctorow also picked up on it in a post called The web is bearable with RSS.” Remember, your pal Cal has […]

Ben Werdmuller: Why RSS matters. “When people think about RSS, they most often associate it with the long-departed Google Reader — but it’s far from dead. From direct subscriptions to syndication into apps that aggregate and re-present content, RSS remains the standard for feeds. It’s the glue that holds the timely web together.” Lots of tools available at RSSGizmos.com!

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/ben-werdmuller-why-rss-matters/

Spotted on Reddit: IncogFeedo. From the About page: “IncogFeedo is a lightweight, privacy-focused RSS reader for fast research on current events. It aggregates feeds from sources you choose and adds convenient research shortcuts: AI verification (Google’s AI mode), Reddit discussions, and Wikipedia search.” Well-featured, clearly not slapped together.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/31/incogfeedo/

Calishat: RSSForager — RSS Feed Discovery Featuring WordPress. “This week I redesigned RSS Gizmos and added a new tool, RSSForager, which is a WordPress-assisted RSS feed discovery tool. After all, what’s the good of RSS feeds if you can’t find any you want in your feed reader? In this article I’m going to show you how RSSForager works and how you can use it to find useful RSS feeds. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/01/calishat-rssforager-rss-feed-discovery-featuring-wordpress/

David Bushell: Croissant RSS Beta is Live! . “Croissant is an RSS reader I designed for myself. It might not be for you, but you’re welcome to try it and provide feedback.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/03/david-bushell-croissant-rss-beta-is-live/

VerbaMea: About Tag Push . This is for Mastodon. “The concept is simple…. Follow any of the tag accounts, which corresponds to a hashtag, and you will get copies of posts as they appear around the fediverse, straight to your own timeline. We’re still testing, and growing. Look at the list below for the tags we are sniffing out and pushing onwards.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/verbamea-about-tag-push/

Calishat: Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available. “The Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to ‘audition’ keywords I […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/calishat-temporary-obsessions-rss-feed-reader-updated-and-now-available/

Andre Garzia: RSS doesn’t necessarily means firehose. “Was reading Hacker News today and saw this very interesting post Reading RSS content is a skilled activity which raises some really interesting points about feed reading and how much effort one should put into making their experience fit what they want. The following discussion on Hacker News is full of people commenting how their feed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/andre-garzia-rss-doesnt-necessarily-means-firehose/