Oh technomages of c/selfhosted, I come seeking your help once more because anywhere I look there’s people trying to sell me on their service, something-something PODCASTS, or RSS for windows and all that, my brain cannot anymore.
I’ve got a blog I’m serving with nginx, and I would like to implement some sort of RSS feed. I’m pretty much new to the whole thing, but it was recommended to me. I did a bit of research and now I know those are like xml files that you subscribe to.
So, I wanted to know: In your experience, what is the best way to go about this? Do I have to make them myself by hand and put them in an /rss/ directory in the root of my blog? How do people subscribe to them? Got any resources?
I wouldn’t mind writing them by hand actually, my whole website is hand-made, gluten free and organic. (maybe not the last one).
Thanks in advance <3
@KazuchijouNo Just install something like WordPress which generates RSS of posts automatically. Bonus you can add the Activitypub plug in and syndicate your content with Mastodon etc.
I appreciate the advice, although it’d go against mu core principle of “doing it myself unless it’s unfeasible” besides, I don’t quite much like wordpress.
Don’t ever install WordPress, just let it die. It’s slow, insecure and the owner is a dick.
I’ve never run wordpress, but it always fascinates me at the number of daily exploits that get released for WP. It seems to me that the core WP is solid, but it’s all the plugins that open up unintentional attack surfaces.
The core isn’t much better.
Can’t speak for nowadays, but long ago when I dabbled in WordPress myself, the code was pretty shitty and insecure.
@rikudou Its open source. The owner will die … the software can live forever.
It doesn’t become less insecure, though.