I usually put newspapers and a couple sports team blogs

RSS is by far the best way to read a newspaper imo

Webcomics:

• Ogalf (NSFW) : https://www.oglaf.com/feeds/rss/
• Extra Fabulous Comics: ://extrafabulouscomics.tumblr.com
• got tons more

Finance (UK) :

• Money Saving Expert: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/feeds/news.rss

Home server:

• Self Host: https://selfh.st/rss/
• Marius Hosting: https://mariushosting.com/feed/

News:

• Your local favourite that caters to your personal biases.

I just follow peoples personal blogs, no substacks or newsletters

People who are in it just to share cool stuff, not to build a ”community” to suck money out of.

What self-hosted RSS reader can you recommend?

baking and self hosting

Good luck with that, I'm pretty sure those popular topics have been filled with slop a long time ago, and I have no sources to share. Maybe find something in the "small web" movement?

Here is what I found on the web (it may or may not be broken since I don't self-host myself):

• Self-host: selfh.st, https://thehomelab.wiki/books/helpful-tools-resources/page/homelab-and-self-hosting-related-blogs, teqqy.de, jeffgeerling.com, kevquirk.com, mariushosting.com, perfectmediaserver.com, corelab.tech, blog.nuneshiggs.com, elicited.blog, mikkolaksola.com/notes, blog.ctms.me

• Cooking: Smitten Kitchen, RecipeTin Eats, Once Upon a Chef, Budget Bytes, The Woks of Life, Just One Cookbook, The Practical Kitchen.

The RSS feeds I have are focused on my job:

• C++ : the Old new thing, Andrzej's blog, Sutter's Mill, Fluent C++, Andreas Fertig, Standard C++, etc.
• Tech : InfoQ, Bruce Schneier, Eli Bendersky, Fabien Sanglard, the Kotlin, Rust and Go blogs.
• and Music for programming which is a great site with free ambient music for coding sessions.