The briefing rss feed contains one entry per day with a link to that days briefing page. The briefing itself cannot be customized, it's the same for everybody.
For the list views you can use the filter menu to filter by min votes or subscribe to any of the min vote rss feeds.
Sign-in is only needed to interact with the site, like voting or hiding entries. If you want to suggest your own blog, just send a mail to [email protected] as described in the FAQ.
Independent does not mean self-hosted. Blog platforms are ok if the content is not monetized, no adverts, no paywalls, no self-marketing. For full criteria see the FAQs.
I currently work on a feature to show excerpts (and read time) in the list views as well. But I will wait with the deployment until the Hacker News visitor wave has calmed down.
I've built Bubbles, a reader-curated frontpage for discovering articles from thousands of personal indie blogs. No AI, no algorithm, no signup. Auth and comments are handled via Fediverse handles.
https://bubbles.town
Bubbles is different, because the front page is created by real people voting. It also supports comments, blogs in EN and DE, as well as following blogs.