All good here, spent the weekend chilling at home, watching tv and staying warm. I have someone that is coming to clear the snow sometime later today.

What about you?

For the same reason people stand up as soon as the airplane stops 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️.

Reeder Classic. I’ve been a fan of this app for years, and love it. Lots of configuration options. I actually discovered FreshRSS while using this app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reeder-classic/id1529445840

Very nice project. I’ll definitely keep an eye on it.

Just a few days ago I ended up rolling my own PRM using a couple of tables in my NocoDB instance, Node-RED for notifications, and a couple of Siri Shortcuts as UI for my devices, mostly because as many already said, even Monica is a bit too much and quite hard to use.

I might as well give a spin and see if I can modify my shortcuts to use this instead!

Agree here too. FreshRSS is an RSS aggregator, basically a self-hosted GReader, which means it fetches the item contents and syncs the read status across clients. That is the HUGE advantage of using it instead of just adding the feeds directly to your client in your device.

Other FreshRSS features I love are the option to load full content of item that only share excerpts, and the option to use CSS selectors to remove content you don’t want (like embedded ads).

I’ve been running FreshRSS for several years now without any problems, but mine is running on a dedicated home server running other services too.

Your experience will depend on your RSS client. As others already mentioned, you will want to configure your client to only pull manually (usually on open only), otherwise it will keep throwing errors at you.

I am going to second the recommendation to get your hands on a cheap Raspberry Pi (you can easily run it on a Zero 2 W) with an 8GB microSD. You can then get a cheap US$2/year domain and use Cloudflare Tunnel to access it from anywhere without having to open ports or expose your whole network to the internet.

The full setup should be around $50 including the Pi, case, microSD, cable, power adapter, and cheap domain in NameCheap or similar.

As far as I can tell PieFed already handles deleting old content (1 week by default, but I’m looking at the code on my phone so not the best way of doing research). I’ll do some more code reading later if I have a chance.

YuNoHost is a great alternative, but if you really want to learn, I would instead recommend really spending some time learning Docker; you don't have to understand how to build your own images (although that is also very useful), but mostly what is going on at a high level, and then switch to Docker Compose. These days it is extremely easy to run very complex architectures with a single compose file.

You also don't need to make it public for your tests, you can always start with local ip addresses and you own computer, or if you have a small computer that can run headless, then you can setup your experiments in there.

Ah, good catch. This is something I have to look into. Other self-hosted apps I have usually keep a local cache for a few days only and fetch on demand when needed. Need to explore if both Lemmy and PieFed to something similar.

I am running them on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM and a 2TB NVMe SSD. Loving it.

Even better: Caddy.

As simple and easy to run as nginx, and has built-in cert management.

And now running both Lemmy and PieFed side by side (OP, posting from my PieFed account).

I think admin wise I am going to stick with PieFed. Definitely liking it more!