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Why do people host RSS?
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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I can access my RSS feeds on multiple devices without losing track of what I've already read.
Pardon my ignorance but isn't that exactly what Inoreader and Feedly do?
Google reader used to to it too. Then it died.
I won't get hurt like thst again.
Yes because they have a server
Yes, I tried both before going self hosted; and both try very hard to make your life difficult if you don’t subscribe. Actually I got hooked on RSS with Google Reader, which was a perfect, simple, free reader. It got shut down, because I guess it doesn’t make sense to provide that service for free.
Pretty much, but I keep getting burned by "free" and sometimes non-free online services. It's a large part of why I self host the things I do.
And alot of folks are still bitter about Google Reader being shut down.