How do you make your RSS findable?
When you make a site you can ask search engines to crawl it, but if you create a RSS feed, is there any place you can submit it so it might show up on those aggregators people pull feeds from?
no, I'm not talking about putting <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/feed.xml"> in your <head>
bubbles.town is a quite new aggregator with fediverse integration.
I'm getting back into the indieweb / smolnet / smallweb myself. Recently stumbled upon the index of indexes which lists some aggregators. There's a lot to discover.
What agregators do people pull feeds from? (Aside from podcast feeds.)
I honestly don't know, last time I used RSS reader was on Blogger in mid 2000s to early 2010s, but people must find stuff somewhere, and I saw mainstream stuff there's Feedly, Flipboard, Inoreader, there's one called Feedspot that you could have your site listed but it's paid, the other's I don't what they do, probably just display most popular news and medium blogs
Oh, I understand now. I took your original post to mean centralized directories of feeds that any RSS application could connect to, like what Podcast Index, Fyyd and iTunes do for podcasts.
I don't know if public-facing directories like those exist for general/text-based RSS feeds, but I think the closest thing is getting your publishing software to speak WebSub protocol, possibly with a plugin, and setting it up to ping one or more of the public hubs.
ohh, that's awesome, thanks!
Not necessarily an aggregator service, but maybe add to @[email protected]? That way there's a presence of the feed outside of its own site that also propagates around. And if the feed is yours or someone else's but you're interested in seeing it gain popularity regardless, you could follow with a microblogging account the bot Birb creates and boost the posts.