RSS READER HELP
I want to finally get an rss reader sorted! Husbeard uses feedly, but it won't let me sign up (it breaks) - so does anyone know a simple rss reader with no ads/sub fee? Happy to pay a small one time cost for one if it lets me do a free try-before-you-buy.
EDIT: I have a linux laptop, android phone/tablet and windows pc (firefox, opera) and it would be amazing if it would sync across all those!
No self hosting or uber tech stuff - just a simple app! I am not techy!
@JenJen you could dive into the rabbit hole that is MicroSub (https://indieweb.org/Microsub)
It can be self hosted. Various readers exist. Their usability is all over the place, of course.
This is something that works best in combination with a rss-bridge, for websites that don't offer rss any more, and something like granary.io to translate feeds.
YMMV.
@JenJen @brunogirin Yes, although the Android version doesn't (yet) have the email or RSS clients.
I run Vivaldi on Fedora 44 here.
@brunogirin @JenJen I use Vivaldi's RSS reader too, and the built-in email client (similar to Opera's very good M2).
Vivaldi is basically Chrome with the Google bits removed and a vast number of customisation options added. It's strong on privacy and actively developed.
@Chamaeleon @JenJen it’s clean, not too ‘computer’, and if you add the base url for a website or blog it’s very good at finding the feed.
You could try the free version of this and others. reeder and reeder classic are also good. reeder classic is a one time purchase and reeder has an annual subscription - https://www.reeder.app/classic/
Miniflux offers a hosted RSS reader:
https://miniflux.app/hosting.html
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You can self-host it if u nasty (I understand you're not Very Computer™).
The web app is pretty straight forward and it has the Google Reader API so your assorted apps should be able to talk to it
@alsternerd @JenJen +1 on FreshRSS. Happy user of it for years.
I selfhost it but it’s great to see there’s a number of folks hosting their own instance already and providing free access to use it.
If you’re wanting to read on more than one device, kinda want/need something centrally hosted in order to make sure there’s syncing of read posts. Something only a single device wouldn’t be able to tell your other devices if you viewed an article or not already. (Unless other clever tricks are done?)
You could sign up on somebodies FreshRSS instance (https://www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html) and get a reader such as CapyReader on Android to sync. On Linux you have a bunch of readers such as NewsFlash, or you can use the FreshRSS interface on the web itself.
Alternatively, The Old Reader is also an alternative to Feedly: https://www.theoldreader.com/en/
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