What to do with an RSS feed?

 This is not an educational material! I simply am sharing my understanding of the topic to hopefully give you an acceptable first guidance. All of the app/website recommendations  are not sponsored and are only the ones that I’ve experienced myself. 

 When I just started looking through blogs and creating mine I slowly but surely realized that I won't casually have "likes" and "followers". I'll actually have to be interesting and creative for people to want to stay. And if they want to stay? Do they have to constantly keep an open tap on their browser with my website to check it? Do they actively have to track my website for updates? Well, not really, although it's certainly an option. Your audience can keep in touch with your updates through emails (which are a butt to casually set-up) or through an RSS feed. 

"RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication)[2] is a web feed[3] that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitors sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News aggregators (or "RSS readers") can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.[4]" - Wikipedia 

So simply said RSS feed gathers the information about the posts on the blog or news page that will be gathered and visible in an aggregator application. The advantage of using RSS feeds is that the notifications about new posts are not going to clutter your email nor will they be lost in the mail and also you get to exit from all other distracting apps and only see stuff that you’ve curated for yourself in true chronological order. 

There’s a ton of different aggregators out there, with different amounts of involvement from the user, in forms of websites, mobile and desktop apps, and I trust that you will be able to find the one best for yourself and I highly encourage you to research, or at least, look through different options to see what sits for you. 

I'd like to end this with some aggregators/blog/website lists that I use: 

If you have any other suggestions of online blog aggregators or similar websites please let me know at private.of.artist@gmail.com so I can add them to this list! 
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