# RSS.Social

14 Hacker News commenters recommended RSS.Social and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for surfacing articles from small personal websites in one stream, which people say helps them find new writers. Critics note the site's own RSS feed link was missing.

## Why people recommend it

- Surfaces content from small personal websites (4 comments): "sampling from small personal websites is a great way to discover new people to follow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702758)) "stuff that makes it easier to find small, independent content is great!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704443)) "It's nice to have a lot of small web content laid out like this!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701919))
- Praised as a good RSS concept (5 comments): "I like the concept of RSS.Social but the author forgot to create a RSS feed link for RSS.Social it's self." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708521)) "I like it the concept of RSS.Social but one thing that someone forgot was the RSS feed link" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708491)) "Love this! RSS is alive and well!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703256))
- Seen as a source for new reading (2 comments): "could be an interesting answer to "what sites are like Hacker News but with more diverse topics"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704815)) "this is the source I was looking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705505))

## What people warn about

- Missing or broken RSS feed link (3 comments): "I like the concept of RSS.Social but the author forgot to create a RSS feed link for RSS.Social it's self." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708521)) "I like it the concept of RSS.Social but one thing that someone forgot was the RSS feed link" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708491)) "Link for rss.social is broken" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710085))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Kagi Small Web](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kagi-small-web.md): 46 recommend
- [Wander small web explorer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wander.md): 31 recommend
- [Ooh.directory](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ooh-directory.md): 26 recommend
- [Personal blog frontpage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/personal-blog-frontpage.md): 21 recommend
- [Bubbles.town](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bubbles.md): 16 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://rss.social/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "RSS.Social", https://hackerapproved.com/p/rss-social/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).