```yaml title: The PowRSS Random Button link: powrss-random published_date: 2026-02-10 15:31 meta_description: Discover the power of the PowRSS random button. 🎲 make_discoverable: true ``` --- ## The PowRSS Random Button The **[PowRSS](https://powrss.com/)** site has taken up a lot of my attention since I discovered it. It's basically an RSS aggregator supporting exclusively the independance/Small web/IndieWeb, whatever you want to call it. From the about page: *"Try out the shuffle option to browse all posts regardless of publishing date and find blogs going all the way back to 1995!"* That makes my heart swell in appreciation that there are still people, groups of people who think this idea still should exist. And not only that, but if you were around on the web since before Web 2.0, this almost feels like a resurgence of how the web was before corporations took over. I like to call it the Human Web. Your 𝕏, your Instagram, your Snapchat, your Facebook: That is Corporate Web. They figured out a way to monetize your shitposts. Somehow. [PowRSS](https://ooh.directory/), [Ooh.directory](https://ooh.directory/) is the polar opposite. It crawls things you actually find yourself happy to have read. Anyway, I'm getting off track here. I strongly advise every person who has a web browser to add the following bookmark to their Bookmark Toolbar, or somewhere you can access it easily. `https://powrss.com/random` This lovely link will randomly drop you on some random page of a site that is indexed on PowRSS's site. It is absolutely incredible. I enjoy this functionality so much that I added it to my Obsidian "launch file" which allows me from within obsidian, invoke the command palette and type `p: Hop the Small Web` which opens the random link in a new tab. The Discover page could strongly use something like this, but I felt obligated to mention it. **You ought to submit your blog to PowRSS as well.** The link to do so is [https://powrss.com/join](https://powrss.com/join) <span class="fieldmark"></span> For hardcore Obsidian nerds out there curious about the "launch file", I'm actually referring to TfTHacker's four year old script he put up back in the day to launch "web sources from within Obsidian". It was created long before Obsidian had a baked-in web browser, but it only makes the file that much more useful. The original script is located [here](https://gist.github.com/TfTHacker/ccfa9510fb430df81fe286e7d765c5ac). The script would look like this you set it up with both the Shuffle & Random URLS: ```js ``` Place this wherever you put your other [Templater](https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater) templates and assign it as a **Startup Template** in Templater's settings. This is obviously useful for all kinds of links you often invoke within Obsidian. 😏 Well that sure is a mouthful for a simple link, but hopefully you can understand my enthusiasm. ■