So… This Feedle Thing Exists

So there’s this “Feedle” thing: a search engine of RSS feeds.

Feedle

People are – finally! – growing sick of social media as a billionaire-controlled platform. Some have actually gone back to blogging – welcome back! – as a way to have their own platforms.

With blogs, and for that matter with any site, there’s a thing you can make called an RSS feed. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. It’s basically an XML file full of entries for the last $N$ entries made on the site. On this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR), $N = 10,000$. You get to the feed by the next-to-rightmost icon at the top of every page, the one with mouseover text that says “RSS Feed (XML)”.

Feedle is an attempt at a search engine where every result is from somebody’s RSS feed. You can now very directly get at blog feeds and podcast feeds, without any AI sewage, parasitic advertisement, SEO ‘optimized’ nonsense, or other Doctorow-style en- mumble -ification.

Seems like a nice idea, billionaire-proofing the aspects of our lives where we can!

So your humble Weekend Editor submitted this CLBTNR, together with links back to the Mastodon account (see that 3rd from the right icon up top, looks like an elephant head with a capital “M” in it?), a couple days ago. So far, nothing seems to have happened. But… they’ve probably got like a million bloggers all wanting their feeds to be searchable.

The Weekend Conclusion

Patience.

(Ceterum censeo, Trump incarcerandam esse.)

Addendum 2025-04-29: This CLBTNR is Now on Feedle

It looks like they picked up this CLBTNR, which is now reachable via Feedle. Thanks, Feedlers!

It appears they only index about 5 months, instead of the whole blog. Maybe their crawler will pick up the rest later.

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Notes & References

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