Many moons ago, I used #RSS feed readers to read blogs. A recent post by @pluralistic has pointed out that this technology is not gone, and we can use it to make the experience of the Internet, to borrow Cory's word, bearable.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/

OK. To all you out there in the know, a request for advice: what do I use on Ubuntu? I would really like not to see ads by the reader, it kind of defeats the purpose.

Huge thanks for suggestions.

Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@alberto_cottica @pluralistic It's quite a technical solution, but I have my own instance of FreshRSS running in Docker on my computer.

https://www.freshrss.org/

Why everyone insists on things being webservers will continually baffle me, but at least Docker's made it fairly easy to administrate.

FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator

FreshRSS is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.

@Azuaron @alberto_cottica @pluralistic I'm also using #Freshrss.
The web interface is so good that I never installed an application for it.