do you have any good sources for rss material? i self host miniflux but the difficult part is to find someting good and interesting. Any field is ok for me, i will then decide what to keep. Thanks

The problem is that the majority of people who used to visit websites just ask LLMs nowadays. They don't visit the site itself, where the work origins from, so they also can't give back / support the source.

It's similar to the viewership of coding tutorials having sunk incredibly low these, creators, especially the ones creating high quality content, can't finance such work / content anymore.

Can't wait to try some of the readers in this thread. I landed on inoreader not long after the Google reader died. The old reader wasn't doing what I needed back then. I've probably been using this a little too long without checking for what else is out there.

RSS is unfortunately just a technology for getting headlines from somewhere.

Doesn't fix the problem of discovering sources that aren't "AI" slop.

Also wondering if the article is "AI" slop or not. Seems a bit too verbose for me.

Very good article. I am not referring to the RSS part.

Interesting thing is, much of what AI is now regurgitating is human output, accumulated over the years. Model training dataset. Stuff like Reddit posts, even posts here?

If, say, AI output becomes THE 99% over the next few years, we will enter the era of incestuous inbreeding within AI -when it simply regurgitates its own output.

Wonder what will be the result at that point!

Plug for Fiper https://www.fiper.net

Just make valid robots.txt and sitemap.xml, please, so I can crawl and update mirrors of the sites I am interested in with least amount of impact on the site.

Sick and tired to be forced to see content from creators that I did't choose to follow, I switched to RSS as an aggregator and doom scrolling is suddenly interesting again.

when google reader died, I jumped to TheOldReader. it was great for a long time but has been having challenges lately and I jumped to the Vienna app on macos.