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Looking to get back into RSS feeds, what are your favourite readers? I used to use Feedly years ago, still a good option?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Feeder is my choice on Android anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The decentralized cross-device sync works surprisingly well! It's a great app with no ads, minimal but attractive UI, a nice reader mode. The closest successor to Press reader.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It also supports MaterialYou color theming, which always a nice addition to any app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same. Works exactly how a RSS reader should.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does it compare to feedly? It's got great reviews.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inoreader

Has a feature-set that is unrivaled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks really interesting! Do you know of any concerning limitations of the free version anyone should be aware of?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Their free is pretty much just "you get to use a very limited amount of our features, to try em out" and the limited amount is still pretty generous.

I've been using them for a very long time, since before the free was actually an option, and have to say they're absolutely the best RSS aggregator I've found

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Big shout for FreshRSS. No issues with privacy (you self-host on a simple PHP/MySQL server), and you can do as many filters as you like (instead of paying for it on feedly). then get an android reader like FeedMe that supports the FreshRSS stream and you're golden!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just did this exact setup last week. Loving it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's awesome, especially once you add all the filters to weed out some junk. What a great, self-contained, private setup!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fwiw, I'm pretty sure mine is just SQLite db. I set it up a bit ago but don't remember a big db install. Granted it's mainly me and just a couple others at most so that should be fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think it might support that too. I just do development in the PHP/MySQL stack, so it was a no brainer for me. I have Kodi running off MySQL as well to share with connected devices. who needs plex? :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Read You looks beautiful

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FeedMe

It's the most feature full and compatible with miniflux for syncing

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.feedme

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Self hosted Tiny Tiny RSS instance with the Tiny Tiny RSS for Android app. Works really well and never had any issues.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Quite fond of Innoreader

Works well on PC and mobile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://f-droid.org/packages/me.ash.reader/

Read You is a beautiful app with material you design. Works great, but the tiny thumbnails, and the fact that not all thumbnails load (whereas in Feeder they do) is my major point of complaint. Still I like using it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This app made me use RSS on mobile again

Good UI
It can retrieve the whole article if only a preview is available
Freshrss sync

It's a copy of Reeder on iOS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Feedly, but only because it has a web browser URL I can use if I want. I'd have probably gone for a FOSS solution otherwise.

Come to think of it, that's also the only reason I use Google Keep. Maybe I should look at self hosting...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NewsBlur. The "full article text" feature is excellent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like that the Android app is open source and available on F-Droid and that self hosting is an option, so I pay for premium so I don't have to deal with the hassle of self hosting while I support the developer!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hands down my favorite right now is this website where you can setup feeds to send you the entire article into your email. You can also do digests of a weeks or days worth of rss feeds. It's super reliable and just perfect for my use case.

My referral link: https://feedmail.org/user/new?referrer=150

Normal link: Https://feedmail.org

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Will leave this one up but would just flag rule 2 in the sidebar. [email protected] is the place for questions - thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

On desktop, Feedbro (for webcomics) and Livemarks (for news) in Firefox.

On mobile, Feeder.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also looking for an RSS reader, privacy friendly and with notifications. Any suggestion?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use ReadYou. Has more features and easier to understand than Feeder (at least for me).

Requires no permissions (except enabling notifications), can use local (on device) accounts. Only requires RSS links, no other data.

Supports notifications, have not tried it. Also likely requires background refresh, which I don't use, so don't know about that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love feedly. It works great.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use Feedly on both iPad, Android and PC, it’s simple, it syncs across all my devices, it is nice and it covers all my needs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using FocusReader for a while now to sync with my self hosted RSS provider (FreshRSS), works great and is under active development.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm still using Feedly. But I don't know if is a bad idea (speaking of privacy).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've only ever used Feedly and it does what I want it to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Feedly but many websites only show a extract and I need to go direct to their website, I'm guessing this is a limitation impsoed by site owners... Is there any "perfect client" for this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some readers like Feeder allow you to click into the article with a simplified Reader view. Next best thing to having the full content in the RSS entry itself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, I keep hearing good stuff about Feeder, I might actually move from Feedly to that one lol, is there like an easy migration tool?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Feedly is still pretty good. You can also look into Inoreader.

I personally use FeedMe and Read You with my selfhosted FressRSS and RSS-bridge servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Must admit I'm perfectly happy with the free tier of feedly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, and I use the Nextcloud News app on Android.

Works really well. There's also Inoreader, which is really good. There's also a couple of good ones on F-Droid that you can check out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Livemarks Add-on for Firefox since I spend most of my time in the browser anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flym. The development stopped in 2020 but it's still the best one for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seconded. Open source. No login required.

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