The @taalumot Blog/RSS Reading Starter Pack

As a follow-up to my higher-level post about What to Do Online Instead of Social Media, and in honor of reaching 500 followers on the fediverse, I have compiled a categorized list of all the blogs I currently follow and their RSS feeds (or equivalent).

Now, not only have I shown you how to follow and be followed on websites with no social media intermediaries, I have given you an exhaustive list of websites you can follow. The intention is to help you get an active RSS queue going, and from there you will be able to branch out yourself.

I hope this puts to rest the vile myth that “rSs Is dEAd” once and for all.

While compiling this list and cleaning out my RSS reader, I used the following principle: If there’s still a blog there — even if it hasn’t been updated for 14 years — it gets a link. Only intentional acts of web destruction are grounds for removal. Don’t worry! If this is your first time stumbling upon these sites, their feeds will still give you years of stuff to read even if they never post again.

A few of these feeds are made with RSS Anything, a third-party service that crawls the front end of websites that absolutely should have RSS feeds and does its best to reverse-engineer one. This tool is miraculous when it works, and you’ll never know the difference day-to-day, but I have to let you know this because that service could go down someday, but also because you might want to use this tool on sites you come across on your RSS journey.

There are also a few Substacks in here. I know. Disgusting, right? But Substacks do actually provide RSS feeds, so I have included them as though they are real blogs.

Of course, you can also follow this website by RSS. Each publication has its own feed: Writing, TIGER TIME, Moon Photos, and Taal Tails.

And if you would like to have a cool website from which the whole world can follow you, hit up the Tiger Pajamas Web Site Company. This sort of thing is our whole philosophy, and we want to help you make it yours, too.