what is this?

feederss is a window into what a small group of people are actually reading. It reads from a shared miniflux instance and shows who subscribes to what, which feeds are new, and what everyone has been starring lately.

why?

Most reading recommendations now arrive by algorithm, tuned for engagement rather than for your taste. The older way still works better: find out what people you like are reading, then go read that.

RSS makes that possible without asking anyone's permission. Feeds are just files. Nobody ranks them, nobody slips ads into them, and nobody decides you should see something else instead. Self hosting the reader means the reading list belongs to the people using it, rather than to a platform that might pivot, decay, or quietly disappear.

RSS never had a social layer. This is a small one: a way to browse each other's shelves.

tips

• Almost everything has a feed, even when it does not advertise one. Every Substack does (add /feed to the URL). So does every subreddit (add .rss).
• For newsletters that only ever arrive by email, kill-the-newsletter.com hands you an address that turns into a feed.
• miniflux has a bookmarklet that subscribes to whatever site you are looking at. Grab it from Settings, then Integrations.
• Use categories. feederss groups each person's feeds by category, so a little tidying makes your shelf much nicer for everyone else to browse.

run your own

feederss is open source, and runs as a small container alongside miniflux. Source code and setup instructions live at gitlab.com/abelsonlive/feederss.