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vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media

Adding your email address to your RSS/Atom feed makes it very convenient for me to reply to your posts.

Websites can programmatically define a blogroll using OPML. These blogrolls help people who read your blog discover other websites you think are worth promoting. A diagram showing how an OPML blogroll can link to RSS feeds, which in turn can each link to another OPML blogroll, and so-on This project maps connections between websites, web feeds (RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds), and OPML blogrolls. The size and interconnectedness of the network can be tracked over time. Exploring the network can help you discover new websites recommended by bloggers you already follow.

RSS is like your youtube subscription feed in hyperdrive. Subscribe to sites you love and decide what shows up — no exploitative social media algorithm needed. No more ads or algorithms deciding how to keep you doomscrolling. This 1999 tech actually solves a lot of 2025 problems. Here's the kicker: Most websites, even social media, quietly support RSS feeds.

Get RSS and Atom feeds from your favourite websites and blogs sent to your email account in real time, for free.

Follow blogs, wikis, YouTube channels, as well as accounts on Twitter, Instagram, etc. from a single page.

What the **** does that mean?

A feed is also known as a “web feed” and the technical term (which you’ll see a lot) is “RSS feed.” A feed contains the latest content in a form that your newsreader app understands. (Your newsreader checks the feed automatically, every few hours.)

Could a modern look at RSS feeds and blogrolls help the small-web much like the fediverse is revitalizing community in social networks?

A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.