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It's always good to be in control of your own content sources.

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[–] bartera@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

The fun thing is, I never left it. Even when people wanted to convince me that it was unusable, no sites used it or Google reader being killed meant there was no point anymore.

Flym works well enough.

[–] ipkpjersi@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm honestly tempted to start looking into RSS, I've never used it before but now without reddit it would be nice to have a centralized location to view absolutely everything relevant to my interests.

[–] imnotneo@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

ya but I dont want active control. I want passive control. I'm lazy. :(

[–] DarkWasp@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Because of how many sites don’t use RSS feeds as much anymore, I’ve found it hard to adjust to them. I’ve been trying out the app Artifact as a sort of replacement but it’s not ideal (and everything has ads when I click through).

Still looking for a good solution for up to date, aggregated info on some of my favourite topics. This site comes pretty close but is still missing some things (for now).

[–] asjmcguire@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I self host FreshRSS and among the many sites I subscribe to, I also subscribe to quite a few hashtags on Mastodon which I'm aware isn't highly publicised so not everyone knows you can do that.

If someone reads this comment that didn't know you could do that -

Instance/tags/hashtag.rss

Eg:

https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction.rss

You are welcome.

(Set your purge limits aggressively, because despite people suggesting otherwise, you will very quickly have thousands of unread articles to trawl through)

[–] francorbacho@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What hashtags in particular are you subscribed to?

[–] asjmcguire@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

#android #fediverse #homeassistant for my interests - and #introduction to make sure that I see and boost plenty of newcomers to get them a good start on the fediverse. It's introduction in particular that requires a very aggressive purge policy! I only keep I think 50 introduction posts across 3 days, but even then - my FreshRSS is typically 1200 articles on a daily basis.

[–] francorbacho@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

requires a very aggressive purge policy

Was going to say — that looks like it would include a lot of noise. Thank you for your response!

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using Newsify on iOS for a few years now. It lets me organize and subscribe to rss feeds complete with saving/favoriting, marking read, etc.

I’ve found it a great way to keep up with news. I write an app and an aggregator site a while back that did a similar thing, but this is good enough and I don’t have to do any dev or hosting work!

[–] FuriousFrodo@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

Feeder is a great Android app. It even fetches the full content from Paywalled sites

[–] Grrbrr@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I switched to feedbro, because the feeds started to fill with anxiety driven news. So i needed something with good filtering.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

It's a browser plugin. Very modifiable, looks fine and behaves well. All that it misses is a way to sync to a service. Has manual backups for feeds and filter-rules.

Tip. It can handle youtube channels and twitter users feeds.

[–] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is the reading experience on an Android phone? Is there an app?

[–] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty great on the web browser front-end to be honest - haven't had an issue when I have used it on my phone. Not sure about the app side of things since I've been trying to limit my doom scrolling to when I'm at a computer

[–] phi1997@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

After using RSS feeds for a while on my phone, I switched to using them exclusively on my laptop. Having them on something not as easy to whip out as my phone makes me less inclined to compulsively check them.

[–] nofunberg@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been using NewsBlur (and syncing with Reeder on mobile) ever since Google killed their RSS service. It supports parsing some non-RSS sites and services, as well.

[–] Jarmer@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

I use NewsBlur as a backend and Unread as a front end and absolutely love it. For whatever reason unread can often pull the entire article when NewsBlur won’t. Works great!

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