alt.hn

1/21/2026 at 2:36:44 AM

RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web

 https://rss.social/

by Curiositry

1/21/2026 at 8:58:57 AM

Using HN as a filter for Kagi's Small Web list[0] works really well: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true

I find the small web feed too noisy without it.

[0]: https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed

by postalcoder

1/21/2026 at 12:47:10 PM

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?

by rdmuser

1/21/2026 at 3:21:59 PM

That alt feed has a lot less gristle - nice! Kagi should update their Github page because I don't see any documentation for it.

I've had a few requests for rss feeds but alas I've been focusing on comments-related features. Is anyone else interested in an rss feed for HN x smallweb? I may get the ball rolling if there's some more interest.

by postalcoder

1/21/2026 at 9:35:32 AM

I did not know about that feature - thanks a lot for sharing!

by q-base

1/21/2026 at 9:07:42 PM

weird, my site: jonpauluritis.com is listed in the small web but the filter doesn't show it.

by jppope

1/22/2026 at 4:27:18 AM

Hi jp, try opening the settings and set it to "Top 50". You should see your page there!

by postalcoder

1/21/2026 at 10:32:17 AM

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by rainallday

1/21/2026 at 3:11:44 PM

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).

by freediver

1/21/2026 at 7:09:05 PM

Oh this is neat. Explains why I’ve seen a few Kagi referrals in my analytics.

Thanks for your work on this. It’s appreciated!

by ar_turnbull

1/21/2026 at 8:40:21 AM 

  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?

Shameless plug: for randomly discovering IndieBlogs check out https://indieblog.page/

by splitbrain

1/21/2026 at 2:21:56 PM

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.

by ilaksh

1/21/2026 at 3:06:53 PM

I think the idea is great, but look at services like Gmail. Sure everyone can setup their own email service, and client. But most people just go on gmails web UI. We've had XMPP and other similar IM services for centuries, but Discord and Slack are more popular. People like simplicity.

by giancarlostoro

1/21/2026 at 3:37:08 PM

People use Discord and Slack because they have to, not because they want to. Having to keep 10 chat apps to somewhat keep in touch with people is a sign that something is very, very wrong.

People use gmail because it was free and in the right place at the right time with the right features. The web UI sucked when it came out, now it sucks even worse, but all email UI sucks.

None of these things are simple or good or the best solution, they're just free and people need to keep in touch somehow.

by t-3

1/21/2026 at 5:07:33 PM

> People use Discord and Slack because they have to

I disagree that anyone HAS TO use Discord. Slack on the other hand, yeah I can see how that would be the case. However, the industry would have not adopted Slack if it wasn't good as it was, the landscape was ripe for something new. Sadly Slack barely updates with anything meaningful.

by giancarlostoro

1/21/2026 at 5:18:03 PM

Ok, yeah, not quite a HAS TO, but if I want to get that patch, or find out info about that open source project, or join some fun group... I have to.

by t-3

1/21/2026 at 6:24:38 PM

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.

by jp1016

1/21/2026 at 8:25:02 PM

Bring back Pingback!

But seriously, Mastodon, etc. are cool, but there's gotta be a way we can augment RSS to get most of what we want?

by johnmaguire

1/21/2026 at 9:55:52 AM

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

by freetonik

1/21/2026 at 1:35:21 PM

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.

[1] https://philippdubach.com/standalone/rss-tinder/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602227

by 7777777phil

1/21/2026 at 2:38:56 PM

Feel free to grab the ones I have collected over at https://blogroll.org. There's an OPML export option that only has the ones with an RSS feed filed.

by manuelmoreale

1/21/2026 at 11:01:58 AM

Is there a feed of your global feed? A meta feed? If I download an opml it will just go out of date right?

by roomey

1/21/2026 at 10:34:09 PM

A feed of the posts of the global feed or the feed of newly added blogs?

Either way I was thinking to implement those.

by freetonik

1/23/2026 at 3:34:55 PM

A feed of the posts from the global feed

by roomey

1/21/2026 at 10:31:19 AM

How can one submit their blog?

by chromehearts

1/21/2026 at 9:42:46 AM

Love this! RSS is alive and well! Going to try and integrate this into my personal RSS Tinder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680013

by 7777777phil

1/21/2026 at 11:36:15 AM

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.

by NicuCalcea

1/21/2026 at 1:21:13 PM

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…

by 7777777phil

1/21/2026 at 1:50:04 PM

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.

by NicuCalcea

1/21/2026 at 1:53:32 PM

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.

by 7777777phil

1/21/2026 at 10:33:06 AM

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by rainallday

1/21/2026 at 6:40:08 AM

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)

by botacode

1/21/2026 at 11:59:47 AM

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.

by fhennig

1/21/2026 at 12:14:27 PM

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.

by postalcoder

1/21/2026 at 5:39:40 PM

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.

by elcapitan

1/21/2026 at 12:51:19 PM

Would be lovely to have a RSS feed for all the posts from RSS.social but it doesn't seem to exist? I don't see it in the source code.

by beilabs

1/21/2026 at 8:38:27 PM

I have a personal site that is listed in there, and it polls my site much more frequently then it needs to (like multiple times a day, compared to when I blog about once a week).

The user-agent includes a link to https://rss.social/bot but it says coming soon, which I think is a shame.

There's also no way to opt-out.

by CqtGLRGcukpy

1/21/2026 at 8:43:55 AM

Since "best" is subjective maybe give a description of the kind of content you hope to feature and why you think it's important.

by october8140

1/21/2026 at 11:36:33 AM

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...

by tasuki

1/21/2026 at 2:53:58 PM

It is explained on that very page :)

by freediver

1/21/2026 at 1:26:11 PM

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

by alex1138

1/21/2026 at 8:29:08 AM

We don't have a RSS Feed yet, but the alivenet will welcome your visit - https://vvesh.de

by pryncevv

1/21/2026 at 11:21:47 AM

I've allegedly been blocked by Cloudflare, despite accessing from an Australian residential IP..

Unless you're geoblocking?

by hsx

1/21/2026 at 1:58:22 PM

This goes really well with my RSS reader Tuvix :D https://tuvix.app/

by TechSquidTV

1/21/2026 at 6:27:13 PM

I've been doing something similar with https://greatreads.dev/.

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.

by lucasfdacunha

1/21/2026 at 5:15:19 PM

I like the concept of RSS.Social but the author forgot to create a RSS feed link for RSS.Social it's self.

by oldcoot

1/21/2026 at 6:55:43 PM

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.

by neekp

1/21/2026 at 8:39:29 AM

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.

by q-base

1/21/2026 at 9:49:12 AM

.social domain has a negative connotation nowadays.

by sam_lowry_

1/21/2026 at 11:54:46 AM

I don't think that's universal, I don't have a negative association with it.

by fhennig

1/21/2026 at 5:13:50 PM

I like it the concept of RSS.Social but one thing that someone forgot was the RSS feed link for RSS.Social it's self.

by oldcoot

1/21/2026 at 7:11:12 PM

Link for rss.social is broken

by Defo

1/22/2026 at 7:51:31 PM

Do not know what the issue was exactly but the link is working now.

by Defo

1/21/2026 at 9:34:31 AM

Love this, bookmarked.

by markoa

1/21/2026 at 12:35:07 PM

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.

by matthew-craig

1/21/2026 at 3:10:54 PM

... and an amazing full-time moderator like @dang

by chrisweekly