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With the decline of twitter and reddit, it's time to take a look at RSS again if you haven't already. (voidfiles.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's always good to be in control of your own content sources.

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

I self host FreshRSS and among the many sites I subscribe to, I also subscribe to quite a few hashtags on Mastodon which I'm aware isn't highly publicised so not everyone knows you can do that.

If someone reads this comment that didn't know you could do that -

Instance/tags/hashtag.rss

Eg:

https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction.rss

You are welcome.

(Set your purge limits aggressively, because despite people suggesting otherwise, you will very quickly have thousands of unread articles to trawl through)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, your comment took me down a rabbit hole. I now too self-host FreshRSS on my NAS using Docker. And, oh boy, this is so good!

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

Excellent! If you looking for an Android app - although the PWA is pretty good too, Readrops is what I use, because it supports the GoogleReader API that FreshRSS exposes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Will definitely check out that app. I've used Feedly so far, but was pretty amazed by FreshRSS' PWA.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The fun thing is, I never left it. Even when people wanted to convince me that it was unusable, no sites used it or Google reader being killed meant there was no point anymore.

Flym works well enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Feeder is a great Android app. It even fetches the full content from Paywalled sites

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ya but I dont want active control. I want passive control. I'm lazy. :(

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

I'm a big fan of feedly but the issue I run into is if I miss a few days it takes so long to sift through everything to find what I'm most interested in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My solution to this is to be more stringent with the feeds that I add. In this day and age, there's so much volume that the important metric is signal-to-noise ratio.

If I find myself skipping the articles from a feed more often than opening them, I just unsubscribe.

Sure they still pile up if I miss a few days, but not nearly as before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use snownews in Linux, and had just figured out how to subscribed to RSS feeds of Reddit subs a week and a half ago. Whoops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I switched to feedbro, because the feeds started to fill with anxiety driven news. So i needed something with good filtering.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

It's a browser plugin. Very modifiable, looks fine and behaves well. All that it misses is a way to sync to a service. Has manual backups for feeds and filter-rules.

Tip. It can handle youtube channels and twitter users feeds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was using Feedly for a long time but just discovered and paid for NewsBlur and it’s amazing. The killer feature is being able to easily see new posts as they come in as part of the Ui rather than having to refresh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using Newsify on iOS for a few years now. It lets me organize and subscribe to rss feeds complete with saving/favoriting, marking read, etc.

I’ve found it a great way to keep up with news. I write an app and an aggregator site a while back that did a similar thing, but this is good enough and I don’t have to do any dev or hosting work!

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