What is tsjo.ch?
A slow web discovery engine, built on RSS.
The internet used to be personal
Before algorithms decided what you should read, people shared ideas on blogs and personal websites. They wrote for the love of writing. Readers found them through word of mouth, blogrolls, and RSS feeds. That is the world in which I fell in love with the internet and I would love to bring it back.
That world still exists, it's just harder to find. tsjo.ch is a directory of hand-picked RSS feeds, organized by topic and curated by real people. No algorithms, no ads, no engagement metrics. Just good writing, discovered the old-fashioned way.
How it works
Browse the directory
Explore feeds organized by category; from cybersecurity to lifestyle, from coding to investigative journalism. Each feed was submitted by a community member.
Follow what interests you
Hit the follow button on any feed. Your selections build a personal reading list that you can manage from your Reader dashboard.
Export to your RSS reader
Your reading list generates a personal OPML feed URL. Add it to any RSS reader; Miniflux, Elfeed, NetNewsWire, Feedly and your subscriptions stay in sync. When you follow or unfollow feeds on tsjo.ch, your reader picks up the changes.
Curated lists
Know a topic well? Create a curated list, a starter pack (hat tip to Mastodon for this idea) of feeds for others to discover. Bundle the best blogs on a subject, tag it to a category, and share it with the community. When someone subscribes to your list, those feeds appear as a folder in their OPML export.
Think of it as a modern blogroll that actually works.
Submit a feed
Found a great blog that should be in the directory? Submit it. Just paste the website URL and we'll auto-discover the RSS feed, validate it, and add it to the index. You can also propose new categories if the right one doesn't exist yet.
What is OPML?
OPML is a simple format for sharing lists of RSS feeds between applications. Your tsjo.ch reading list generates a dynamic OPML file with a unique URL. Point your RSS reader at this URL and it imports all your followed feeds, organized by category.
Unlike a static export, your OPML URL stays up to date. Follow a new feed on tsjo.ch and it appears in your reader. Unfollow it and it's gone. No manual syncing needed.
Popular RSS readers that support OPML: Miniflux, Elfeed (Emacs), NetNewsWire, Feedly, Inoreader, Newsboat, FreshRSS.
Invite only
tsjo.ch grows slowly, by design. New members join by invite code from existing members. Once your account is a day old and you've contributed at least one active feed to the directory, you'll receive five invite codes to share with people you trust.
What does tsjoch mean?
In the Frysian language (the other official language in The Netherlands), it is commonly used as "Cheers!". It has another meaning, however. From the first line of the Frisian anthem: Frysk bloed tsjoch op!, where tsjoch op is the imperative of optsjen (“to rise up”). So both cases are applicable here; rise up against the algorithms and thanks for sharing.
Ready to explore?