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Blogger discovers this cool thing called "RSS".

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I've been interested in trying out RSS again but I don't want to self-host. Can anyone recommend a RSS client (hosted, local, or whatever) that they like?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I used Feedly since Google Reader was shut down. Then 1.5 years ago, as Feedly was getting more paywalls and AI-crap, I switched to Newsblur, and have been a happy user ever since. I love its Intelligence Trainer that lets me hide posts with certain tags/authors/keywords.

Unlimited hosted-by-them Newsblur costs 36 USD / year. It has a FLOSS version and a more limited free hosted-by-them version, but the 2.5 GBP / month was worth the QoL increase for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It can be as simple as just putting an app on your phone. I use feeder which is fine. Pretty bare bones, but in that way it's easy to learn and use.

I've also been meaning to try out an app called Nunti, which I heard about a while ago from this Lemmy post. It claims to be an RSS reader with the added benefit of an (open source and fully local) algorithm to provide some light curation of your feed. It looks interesting, but I haven't actually tried it out yet because I'm still deciding whether I want any algorithm curating my feed, even one as transparent as Nunti's. It's also only available through F-Droid right now, which is a bit of a barrier to entry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

The fact that it's only available through fdroid is actually a good thing in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If it's open source, you could perhaps tinker with the algorithm. My main desires for rss feeds are:

  • a way to filter out fluff affiliate link articles (e.g., 8 best gadgets on sale for prime day)
  • a way to cluster articles on the same topic (i don't really need to read 5 articles about the same news item)

Any clue if nunti could do that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Newsblur can do the first kind of filtering. You select "best gadgets" in the title, and all posts on that feed with that phrase in the title will be hidden from then on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Feeder can do keyword filtering on titles, but not on a per feed basis, and only with simple wildcards. I've been able to filter out a bit with it, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

there are some publically available FreshRSS instances that you can make an account with, I personally use hostux. you can access it with the browser and any apps that support FreshRSS (in my case, Read You or Capy Reader on Android, and sometimes RSS Guard on desktop).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

If you’re on iOS, feeeed is kinda slick :)