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 title: RSS Club
 date: 2022-06-15 12:27:00
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About a month back, I subscribed to Dave Rupert [0]'s RSS feed and
noticed that there were a handful of posts that didn't exist on his
website. Turns out, Dave has created something called RSS Club that
provides _RSS-only_ content. In his words:

> It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed reader in order to
celebrate the medium of RSS and breakaway from social media.

I love this.

Amazingly, a number of writers I already follow have joined RSS
club (even though I somehow have failed to notice their RSS-only
posts), and I am _thrilled_ to join their ranks. So, to kick things
off, consider this my very first post in RSS Club, and for the sake
of clarity, I feel like I should end it with the three rules of RSS
Club:

- 1st rule of RSS Club is "Don’t Talk About RSS Club".
- 2nd rule of RSS Club is "Don’t Share on Social Media".
- 3rd rule of RSS Club is "Provide Value".

**Oh!** And for the record, this blog runs on Jekyll, so I just
followed Dave's guidance on this page [1] with one minor tweak:

```html
{% if page.rss_only %}
  <!-- don't index rss club posts -->
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
{% endif %}
```

If the posts are for RSS feeds only, I don't want them being
discovered and indexed by all of the search engines of the world,
so I added a `noindex` meta tag to my RSS-only headers too.

Simple, but effective.

--

_This is post 013 of #100DaysToOffload [2]_

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[0]: https://daverupert.com/
[1]: https://daverupert.com/2018/01/welcome-to-rss-club/
[2]: https://100daystooffload.com/
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