#AskFedi

What Web Feed Reader do you use?

#RSS
#Atom

@Algot
The one I wrote: https://www.kustosz.org

It’s self-hosted. There’s container image if you want to check it out, and installer if you already have VPS.

Home page

@mirekdlugosz

Thank you for the information.

I will read your documentation.

I was expecting to mostly hear about "user" reader software which one might install on their own computer.

@Algot
You can install it on your computer and use from there, at least as long as you use Linux.

One of my main reasons was to continue reading across multiple devices. Of course it might not suit you if your needs are different.

@Algot nextcloud news

Kinda buggy but easy to set up given I already had nextcloud set uo

@Algot theoldreader. I switched to it after google reader was shut down, and it's still around, being quite similar to google reader.
@Algot None. I liked #Feedly, but I wound up switching back to #Thunderbird on my desktop.

@colincogle

Thanks. That's the "reader" I use currently.

@Algot Oh. It works for me, but I would kill for RSS sync to make it into Firefox Sync by the time the mobile apps launch.
@Algot I was using Tiny Tiny RSS as of late, but the PHP 8 upgrade broke it on Debian, so I’m back to QuiteRSS.

@Algot

Since you asked…

News Explorer

It reads #RSS 2.0, #Atom, #Mastodon, #JSOM, and I forget what else. It works without requiring an account on some external service or storing information outside your device, but if really you want to do that sort of thing, you can sync across devices. You can import/export in #OPML. You can download full articles. You can adjust the font/size/colors of what you’re reading.

So yes, I’m very happy with it.

https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html

News Explorer - Your news. Anywhere, anytime.

World's first RSS newsreader that runs on all Apple devices, with iCloud based sync and a streamlined reading workflow.

@darkmirror

Apple iOS only?

@Algot

Oh … That I don’t know. Hopefully their site lists the platforms it works on, clearly, somewhere. I was just so happy that it worked on all my Apple gizmos way back when I bought it that I didn’t check into other platforms.

If this one won’t work on your gizmos, perhaps https://alternativeto.net will show you something useful when you enter “News Reader”.

Good luck.

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@Algot I use Feedly and recently moved from free to paid so I could do more with #RSS. I'm thinking about setting up Miniflux on a server because people keep recommending it.

@rcade

Miniflux. That one sounds very interesting.

@Algot have a look at Feedbin. It’s paid but very worth it. It has a very nice look and feel, and many useful features like a custom email to subscribe to newsletters and have them in the reader, a read it later feature, etc. Most of all it has no trackers, no ads, it’s not made by any shady corporation. It also has an iOS app and a companion podcast app called Airshow!

@mauro

Thanks.

I'll check it out.