diff --git a/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentIndex.ts b/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentIndex.ts
index a18e54e3..4610cd41 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentIndex.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/emitters/contentIndex.ts
@@ -41,26 +41,26 @@ function generateRSSFeed(cfg: GlobalConfiguration, idx: ContentIndex): string {
   const base = cfg.baseUrl ?? ""
   const root = `https://${base}`
 
-  const createURLEntry = (slug: SimpleSlug, content: ContentDetails): string => `<items>
+  const createURLEntry = (slug: SimpleSlug, content: ContentDetails): string => `<item>
     <title>${content.title}</title>
     <link>${root}/${slug}</link>
     <guid>${root}/${slug}</guid>
     <description>${content.description}</description>
     <pubDate>${content.date?.toUTCString()}</pubDate>
-  </items>`
+  </item>`
 
   const items = Array.from(idx)
     .map(([slug, content]) => createURLEntry(simplifySlug(slug), content))
     .join("")
-  return `<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/atom" version="2.0">
+  return `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<rss version="2.0">
     <channel>
       <title>${cfg.pageTitle}</title>
       <link>${root}</link>
       <description>Recent content on ${cfg.pageTitle}</description>
       <generator>Quartz -- quartz.jzhao.xyz</generator>
-      <atom:link href="${root}/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
+      ${items}
     </channel>
-    ${items}
   </rss>`
 }