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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

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[–] gsquirrel@lemmings.world 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Creating an RSS feed by hand is no harder than creating HTML pages - it's just an XML file, basically.

This page has some decent advice to get started with:

https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html

[–] 486@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is not quite true. As I mentioned in my other comment already, each feed entry needs its own unique UUID. You have to generate such a UUID for every entry.

[–] akademy@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

It's pretty easy to create a uuid. There are many ways to do it. Which is best for you would depend on how you're generating your website.

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