Setting up an RSS feed blog for (somewhat) normal people

• Since the internet schelling point of twitter is disintigrating, and I am not self-important enough to create a substack for random bullshit I might want to post, I've decided to go back to rss feeds using lists.sh. lists is very barebones (every post is a plaintext file).

Creating an account

• To create an account run

• ssh new@lists.sh

• After initial setup, create a directory and sync using an alias

• alias listsSync="scp ~/path_to_blog_root/*.md lists.sh:/"

Following others

• Follow people using their RSS feed `https://{username}.lists.sh/rss`, e.g. `https://apoorvalal.lists.sh/rss` on your favourite RSS reader
• This works for substacks too: substacks expose an rss feed at `<someoneImportant>.substack.com/feed`
• lists devs recommendations
• Email digest creator tool by the same devs

Syntax

• Linebreaks create new bullet points
• Here's a bare link
• https://lists.sh/
• Here's a hyperlink
• Headers are constructed using markdown syntax (#, ## etc)
• Lists are created using whitespace
• first item
  • second item
    • third item
• last item

Try it yourself

• To get started, here's a truncated version of the contents of this post (store in in
• testing.txt in ~/path_to_blog_root to get started and sync to your username)

• =: title blogging using RSS again
  =: publish_at 2023-07-03
  
  Since the internet schelling point of twitter is disintigrating, and I am not self-important enough to create a substack for random bullshit I might want to post, I might go back to rss feeds. Lists is very barebones (every post is a plaintext file).
  Linebreaks create new bullet points
  Here's a bare link
  => https://lists.sh/
  => https://lists.sh/spec Here's a hyperlink
  To create an account run
  ssh new@lists.sh
  Create a directory and sync using an alias
  alias listsSync="scp ~/path_to_blog_root/*.md lists.sh:/"
  ## headers and lists
  
  first item
      second item
          third item
  last item