Drawing of a garden with glowing RSS trees

RSS feeds discovery strategies

In one of my recent blog posts, I talked at length about the virtues and advantages of building personal information intake system around RSS feeds. You get privacy and ownership over the distribution of information without any black box algorithms deciding what to show you (which inevitably ends up focusing on ads or engagement bait at some point). However, no system is perfect, and building your beautiful garden of RSS feeds is no different. ...

October 27, 2025 · 7 min · 1479 words · Tom Burkert