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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-06-18 19:21:59 +0100
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-import Page from "../../layouts/Page.astro";
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-<Page
- title="How to subscribe to joeac's blog"
- description="How to subscribe to joeac's blog"
->
- <section>
- <h1>How to subscribe to my blog</h1>
-
- <p>
- The short version: use my <a href="/blog/rss.xml">RSS file</a> or my
- <a href="gemini://joeac.net/logs/longlog.gmi">gemlog</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If neither of those things means anything to you, no worries. You could
- just look at my website every once in a while, but that gets old. A better
- way is to use my RSS file. Here's how.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- An RSS file, if you don't know, is a file containing a list of posts in a
- format that's so stupid even computers can understand it. Mine is at
- <a href="https://joeac.net/blog/rss.xml">https://joeac.net/blog/rss.xml</a>.
- Since computers can understand it, you can get software to read it
- automatically and tell you when I've made a new blog post. That's much less
- hassle than having to check manually yourself!
- </p>
-
- <p>
- I'm not the only person serving RSS files, of course. You might not have
- heard of them, but they're actually all over the Web. In the early days of
- the Web, everyone was using them, so they've ended up built in to a whole
- load of foundational Web technology, and hence ubiquitous, even if most
- Web users have forgotten they exist. Once you've subscribed to my blog,
- you can subscribe to basically any blog, podcast, or YouTube channel, and
- a lot of other Websites for news, organisations, whatever. Point a
- well-designed RSS aggregator or RSS reader at most Websites, and it'll
- automatically find an associated RSS feed.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you're not persuaded, try reading
- <a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/you-should-be-using-an-rss-reader-76aed31151f9">
- Cory Doctorow explaining why RSS is ridiculously good
- </a>. He's terrifyingly persuasive. Also, read his novels!
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you just want to give it a go quickly, probably the quickest way is to
- use someone else's RSS aggregator that they'll let you use as a service.
- <a href="https://feedly.com/news-reader">Feedly</a> and
- <a href="https://www.inoreader.com">Inoreader</a> have free tiers.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you want to have a little more control, you can self-host an RSS
- reader, like <a href="https://tt-rss.org">Tiny Tiny RSS</a>,
- <a href="https://miniflux.app">Miniflux</a>, or
- <a href="https://freshrss.org">FreshRSS</a>. But why would you do that?
- Self-hosting is complicated! Why not just use a normal, local app? Here are
- some options for that you might want to investigate. All these are active
- free and open-source software projects at the time of writing.
- </p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader">Fluent Reader</a> (Linux, Windows, Mac, also mobile I think?)</li>
- <li><a href="https://www.rssowl.org">RSSOwl</a> (Linux, Windows, Mac)</li>
- <li><a href="https://capyreader.com">Capy Reader</a> (Android)</li>
- <li><a href="https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/akregator">Akregator</a> (Linux, Windows (unstable))</li>
- <li><a href="https://gfeeds.gabmus.org">GFeeds</a> (Linux)</li>
- <li><a href="https://lzone.de/liferea">Liferea</a> (Linux)</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>
- For the terminally geeky, there is also
- <a href="https://newsboat.org">Newsboat</a>. I used it for ages, it works
- fabulously, but it's all in the terminal, so you have to be OK with that.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- You can also just enter 'RSS feed reader' into your favourite search
- engine, software distribution, or app store and see what comes up. Try
- adding 'FOSS' into the query to prioritise free, open-source software.
- </p>
- </section>
-</Page>