From the first line of the Frisian anthem: Frysk bloed tsjoch op!, where tsjoch op is the imperative of optsjen (“to rise up”)

I am tired of the algorithms that determine what I get to read, so I changed my habits. The problem that I ran into is that it was really hard to find good, high quality blogs and people to follow. With tsjo.ch I want to change that. I am not alone with this mission, Viktor even described it as a “The Small Website Discoverability Crisis”.

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.

This is my personal project that I built to solve this problem.

How it works

1. 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 (mostly me now :)).

2. 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.

3. 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 Bluesky 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.

The current state of tsjo.ch

The basic infrastructure works very well, I use it for my own RSS reader and I have been adding websites to the index as I go. So, give it a try and let me know what you think.

I will add features as I go and discover new things to add to this project.