RSS Link Archive

So I played with the idea of writing an RSS reader for myself. For many months I have been using newsboat, but I wanted to create something my own, from scratch. Not sure why, but I started storing the links.

I was surprised recently that there are people interested in things like that: https://www.tdpain.net/blog/a-year-of-reading

- currently there are 89997 RSS entries right now / 875 marked as 'favorite'. - collection started at 2022/09/2022-09-05, where some where added manually from my collection of "very important links".

I am curious if anything useful could be achieved by collecting links from the internet. Maybe not. Maybe collecting RSS links is not useful, and not worth at all. On the other side I am happy since I have learned many things in that journey: Django basics, found interesting RSS sources (like Hacker News).

My inspiration for this project are: - there was a video made by Luke Smith 'YouTuber', as he rambled in woods that YouTube creates cons00mption list. It is certainly not a database of very important videos - Google decreases scope of some news, or some sources, so I wanted to create some sort of engine that will provide data as-is rather than filtering it, or ranking it - I hold the data not some third party entity (feedly) - I want some sort of data that are not tampered with, or straight up removed after 10 years because it does not 'fit narrative'. I know that this is not achievable to replace popular search engines, and I think I do not plan on doing that - somehow also "Dead Internet" videos (but not directly)

Any thoughts?