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trashHeap 
Just switched from #Newsblur to self hosted FreshRSS. Since Newsblur is pushing llm features these days.
F-DroidThis week in #FDroid (TWIF) is lovingly handcrafted without AI:
* we take a hard look in/at the mirrors
* #Lichess is gone, long live #Lichess
* #SessionMessenger on its last 90 days
* Butterfly app Easter update
* #NewsBlur uses #AI to put AI in your news about AI feeds
+ 16 new apps
& 184 updates
โ โ โ โ โ https://f-droid.org/2026/04/09/twif.html
dr ๐ ๏ธ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ก๐ง
Welp, #newsblur finally made themselves obsolete. There's no way to turn off "mark read after X days" without paying for a subscription.
What #rss readers are still usable?
It has to be
a. online (a website, not an app)
b. configurable to *REQUIRE SPECIFIC USER INPUT* to mark items as read (no timeout or "when you click away, we mark it unread" nonsense)
Karl Voit 
@greg https://www.newsblur.com/ is my go-to in this case. Its Android app + web view are really good. It's one of the few cloud services I trust and pay.
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116201192373741361
Everybody needs to use an aggregator solution for #RSS and #Atom feeds.
Trust me.
This way you're much much better protected and informed about stuff that happens. ๐
I'm even using a paid cloud service myself: #newsblur. You know how I dislike cloud services in general but this one serves me well without locking me in. ๐
๐จ๐ฆ robyn ๐Ok so. Been using #RSS readers for a long time. Mostly #Thunderbird and some #FOSS Android apps.
Annoying to me has always been that the two don't talk to each other, and some QoL features missing. So now I am exploring #NewsBlur and #InoReader after reading that Pluralistic article. So far so good.
WHICH IS YOUR RSS READER OF CHOICE? Must work on Android & sync to an interface I can access through a browser.
Update, thank you all for the slew of responses and suggestions!! ๐๐ผ
NewsBlur
InoReader
a different one! I'll comment
Poll ended at .
Mmm, I tried to do things with search and "surface those stories" and folders in #NewsBlur, and I think I broke it ๐คฃ
I played around some, and I think what could work for me for working with #RSS is saved searches.
- #NewsBlur does that pretty well, but it's a huge beast, and LLM-flavoured
- #miniflux doesn't do them at all (you can add external things that will do that for you, I guess)
- #FreshRSS does that pretty well, but is annoying to get it to download full articles, PHP leaves me with a bit of distaste, and authentication is weird/meh (apparently they mostly use Apache for it).
- #NewsBlur does that pretty well, but it's a huge beast, and LLM-flavoured
- #miniflux doesn't do them at all (you can add external things that will do that for you, I guess)
- #FreshRSS does that pretty well, but is annoying to get it to download full articles, PHP leaves me with a bit of distaste, and authentication is weird/meh (apparently they mostly use Apache for it).
I like #RSS. I have a lot of feeds. I'm interested only in *some* of the content they publish. I'm looking for a decent way to look at them.
Unfortunately most things I found either outright use LLMs for sorting/grouping, or are created using such.
#NewsBlur somewhat works for me with its filters and groups, and #miniflux https://github.com/eleith/miniflux-digest might.
Anyone knows of other options? #selfhosted or local app. Ideally not "to email", but might work too.
