Mastodawn

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)

izzy | Technically Good ✨4d ago

So I've set up a #BlurBlog page:

https://technicallygood.newsblur.com/

I you use #NewsBlur as well, you can just subscribe to it then & there; if you don't - you probably guessed it - *the blog has an #RSS feed* you can subscribe to! HOW COOL IS THAT

I've only just started using BlurBlog, but this seems to me a neat combination of an old-school RSS feed reader + a curated social sharing experience.

The Technically Good Blurblog

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Karl Voit

Mar 22

@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.

#RSS #Atom #NewsBlur

NewsBlur - A Personal News Reader

Follow RSS feeds, train stories with intelligence filters, and read smarter. Free on web, iOS, and Android. Open source.

Karl Voit

Mar 9

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. 😉

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. 🙇

#PIM

🇨🇦 robyn 💜Mar 8

Ok 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!! 🙏🏼

#BoostOK

NewsBlur

InoReader

33.3%

a different one! I'll comment

66.7%

Poll ended at Mar 12 at 5:04pm.

viq Mar 7

Mmm, I tried to do things with search and "surface those stories" and folders in #NewsBlur, and I think I broke it 🤣

#RSS #selfhosting #sysadmin

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viq Mar 5

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).

viq Mar 5

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.

#AskFedi