When you make a site you can ask search engines to crawl it, but if you create a RSS feed, is there any place you can submit it so it might show up on those aggregators people pull feeds from?
no, I'm not talking about putting <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/feed.xml"> in your <head>
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Auster@thebrainbin.org · 2 pts · 95d
Not necessarily an aggregator service, but maybe add to @birb@rss-parrot.net? That way there's a presence of the feed outside of its own site that also propagates around. And if the feed is yours or someone else's but you're interested in seeing it gain popularity regardless, you could follow with a microblogging account the bot Birb creates and boost the posts.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 33d
Took me two months to reply because I've been busy, and in the meantime I've been learning more about the subject. RSS Parrot looks cool af, but for about a month now it's been saying it created an automated account, yet it never reacted to me updating my feed. I emailed the creator about a month ago and he didn't reply, then I messaged him on Mastodon about two weeks ago, and he ignored that too (and I see him online posting other stuff), so ¯\(ツ)/¯
Thanks anyway, too bad the birb is dead :(
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 32d
Worth noting the generated bot's posts don't propagate to Lemmy given Lemmy not being able to handle posts not tied to a community. Also in compatible instances (Mastodon, Mbin, Friendica, and yet to test, PieFed), only new posts appear in a given instance and only if someone in that instance follows the generated bot.
Maybe either of those were the issue?
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 32d
I'm trying again.
Originally I couldn't follow the profile, it went to request (when I clicked Follow the button turned into Cancel Request instead of Unfollow, if I click again it asked if I wanted to cancel request). And I just checked these profiles the birb created and when I clicked on Open original page it led to a dead link.
Now I restart the process and I was able to follow the profile (and I can see original page). Later gonna post something on the blog to see if it's working.
edit: the birb lives \o/
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 2 pts · 95d
bubbles.town is a quite new aggregator with fediverse integration.
I'm getting back into the indieweb / smolnet / smallweb myself. Recently stumbled upon the index of indexes which lists some aggregators. There's a lot to discover.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 33d
Hey, sorry for being so late to reply, bubbles is awesome! And I have checked the other link too, turns out I made an answer for my own question here listing active directories one can get indexed https://pirahxcx.neocities.org/computer-nerding#indexed03 (02 is about places you can get indexed without a feed, 01 is search engines)
everett@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 96d
What agregators do people pull feeds from? (Aside from podcast feeds.)
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 96d
I honestly don't know, last time I used RSS reader was on Blogger in mid 2000s to early 2010s, but people must find stuff somewhere, and I saw mainstream stuff there's Feedly, Flipboard, Inoreader, there's one called Feedspot that you could have your site listed but it's paid, the other's I don't what they do, probably just display most popular news and medium blogs
everett@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 96d
Oh, I understand now. I took your original post to mean centralized directories of feeds that any RSS application could connect to, like what Podcast Index, Fyyd and iTunes do for podcasts.
I don't know if public-facing directories like those exist for general/text-based RSS feeds, but I think the closest thing is getting your publishing software to speak WebSub protocol, possibly with a plugin, and setting it up to ping one or more of the public hubs.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 96d
ohh, that's awesome, thanks!