This 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

— — — — — https://f-droid.org/2026/04/09/twif.html

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)

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.

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

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

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