feedi

Your blog and your RSS reader your podcast host... all on your domain. MACRO blogging: write when you have something to say, read what's worth reading, all in one feed. No algorithm. No platform. No comments. If someone you follow in your feed writes a response, you'll see it. That's the whole social model.

what you get

Blog. Markdown files, deploy on push. Your posts, your domain, your RSS feed. Public RSS reader. Add any feed to feeds.json: blogs, fedi accounts, anything with RSS. Shows up alongside your posts. Your site becomes a public record of what you're paying attention to. No feeds, it's just your blog posts. Unblockable analytics. Every request hits your Cloudflare Worker on your domain. uBlock, Brave, Safari ITP; none of it matters. Real numbers: hits, unique visitors, countries, referrers, search terms, hourly heatmap. Bot probes counted separately. No js scripts and not those nothingburger platform analytics. Beautiful and usable.
Podcast analytics. feedi tracks feed downloads and which app your listeners use: Overcast, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, whatever. The data is usually locked behind hosting platforms. You own it here. Fediverse. Via Bridgy Fed, your domain becomes your fedi handle (@you@yourdomain.com). No Mastodon account needed but findable everywhere.

requirements

• Node.js
• Cloudflare account (free tier works)
• A domain (optional but recommended)

setup

git clone https://github.com/qualityshepherd/feedi
cd feedi
npm install

Edit feedi.config.js and set your domain, title, author. Everything else flows from there.

cloudflare

wrangler login
wrangler kv namespace create KV

Copy the KV namespace id into wrangler.toml. Then:

wrangler secret put API_SECRET   # your analytics password
wrangler deploy

Point your domain at Cloudflare. Done.

r2 backups (optional)

Daily analytics backups to Cloudflare R2. Public bucket; your data, your bucket, yours forever.

wrangler r2 bucket create your-bucket-name

Set r2Bucket in feedi.config.js to match. Run node gen/genr8Domain.js to regenerate wrangler.toml, then wrangler deploy.

local dev

npm start        # builds index, feeds, rss
npm run server   # serves at localhost:4242

writing posts

Markdown files in posts/. Filename = slug.

---
title: My Post
date: 2026-01-01
tags: [tag1, tag2]
---
Post content here.

Future-dated posts are drafts and won't appear until that date.

adding feeds

Edit feeds.json:

[
  { "url": "https://example.com/feed.xml", "limit": 10 }
]

Run npm start to rebuild.

analytics

https://yourdomain.com/api/analytics?token=YOUR_SECRET&days=7

podcast (optional)

Uncomment podcast in feedi.config.js. Tag posts with podcast and include an <audio> element pointing to your audio file. Generate the feed:

npm run rss:pod

fediverse (optional)

node gen/genr8Domain.js   # patches index.html with your domain
curl -X POST https://fed.brid.gy/web/yourdomain.com

Your handle: @you@yourdomain.com

tests

npm test          # e2e + unit
npm run test:unit

MIT - brine