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[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

First let me say - SCREW YOU GOOGLE FOR SHUTTING DOWN GOOGLE READER. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE AND I WILL NEVER FORGET.

I moved over to NewsBlur for my aggregator, and I’ve been really happy with it. It’s a small team, and the dev is very responsive to issues and suggestions. Reading articles online is quick because it uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts that GReader used.

On my iPhone I rotate between Fiery Feeds, Unread, and NewsBlur’s app to read my articles on mobile.

[–] wilberfan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Another hand in the air for Feedly.

[–] Youthless@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Reeder with iCloud sync on iPhone and Mac.

[–] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] maor@lemmy.org.il 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same. Specifically I use it as a GUI to organize them; for the actual reading, I wrote a script that compiles an E-mail digest periodically: https://github.com/it-is-wednesday/miniflux-mail-digest

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[–] krash@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use fresh rss since its rather easy to selfhost, and read you on my android. Unfortunately read you doesn't play well with fresh rss yet.

[–] AnusBesamus@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] keNaPHEl@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

+1

Yarr (https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr) is a versatile web-based feed aggregator that serves as both a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.

Please be aware that the releases available on the GitHub repository "https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr" might not be the most up-to-date versions. However, you have the option to compile the application from the source code, ensuring that you benefit from essential bug fixes and improvements.

[–] Aldursil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was only about a week ago I had no idea what RSS was used for. And today I've subscribed to Inoreader to trial it out for a month because it's freaking amazing!

[–] ksp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I use an instance of FreshRSS (but I plan on hosting my own) and I use NetNewsWire to access it on iOS

[–] jimrob4@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Feedly on the web and my phone (cause cloud sync and blah blah blah)

Newsboat on my Linux box that I ssh into when I'm tired of people and ads.

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

+1 for miniflux, has all the features and it's really light.

I didn't know about news, might give it a look. I've been using Microflux on Android.

[–] alphapro06@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

NetNewsWire

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago
[–] lemminer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Liferea, newsboat and feeder

[–] polaris64@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] NormDeplume@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] neko@fishfry.cheese.beer 4 points 1 year ago

the android app Nunti.

I get easily overwhelmed by busy feeds and not checking every day, so their completely-offline interest algorithm concept is helpful for me

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When google Reader was binned I used theoldreader for years, but eventually migrated to Feedly because it synched between my PC and smartphone.

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[–] anteaters@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I use the news-app of my Nextcloud to aggregate and manage the feeds. To actually read them I connect the news-app with Nextcloud.

[–] Kyoyeou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My question would be: What do you read on a RSS feed, I had one when I was trying to find a different way to read the news, but it didn't hold because I found news too repetitive and only talking about scary things that rarely actually impacted me, so I'd be curious to know what people use them for

[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve got tons of feeds for sites that interest me. I organize them into folders by subject. I have a folder for online comics, iPhone sites, news sites, sports sites, technology sites, and pen-related sites just to name a few.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use it as intended; a way to aggregate data into one place. I use mine for podcasts, reddit, discord announcements, steam patch notes, and of course news.

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[–] wanghis_khan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I straight up don't understand how RSS works.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Individual sites have RSS feeds, which are essentially just XML files that contain a list of all the articles on the site.

You run software that's referred to as a feed reader, which contains a list of all the RSS URLs you want to subscribe to. It either periodically checks to see if there's updates to the RSS files, or gets notified of updates via WebSub.

[–] wanghis_khan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems great for keeping up on your favorite blogs.

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[–] Nixon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use News Explorer on both iOS and OSX.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306

I think it’s one of the best.

[–] huojtkeg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Wizard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using NetNewsWire and it’s ability to sync through iCloud so I can read stuff on my phone or MBA. Bonus that it’s FOSS!

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I pay for access to Newsblur which is an RSS aggregator with open source mobile apps. For stuff like bug feeds and tracking wiki updates on projects I use elfeed within Emacs.

[–] accesslog@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Newsboat on desktop and Reeder on IOS.

[–] lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I use Feeder on mobile and Newsflash on desktop

[–] fkrauthan@lemmy.cogindo.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

This might actually help me move away from feedme and greader for android. Both of these apps support Feedly, but the development cycle is extremely slow to resolve some of the bugs it has.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[–] CatBusBand@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Currently using Feeder(android). Layout is simple and customizable. You can also save articles on it

[–] borlax@lemmy.borlax.com 2 points 1 year ago

I self host FreshRSS and it seems to work pretty well.

[–] RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've got Feedbro running on a server, sending Twitter posts to Discord. Works well with Reddit posts too

[–] JustJack23 2 points 1 year ago
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