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With the decline of twitter and reddit, it's time to take a look at RSS again if you haven't already.(voidfiles.github.io)

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

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randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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I been using the feeder app and its really good to get tech news , just add the RSS links and you have news that choose to read and not recommended bullshit.

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tshannon@beehaw.orgOP
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I self host a tiny tiny rss instance, and while I’m not a huge fan of the developer and his behavior, I like the web app in combination with the android app. It’s been working great for me for years.

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shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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Love RSS. I personally really like Feeder from F-Droid

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ThePJN@sopuli.xyz
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FreshRSS is cools. The way mamma used to make.

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stankbucket@lemmy.one
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And self-hostable which is why I switched to it. I also highly recommend netnewswire if you’re in the apple ecosystem.

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mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org
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Agreed, I use it on my mac!

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electric3739@beehaw.org
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I recently got back into RSS with self hosting FreshRSS with NetNewsWire. Great setup. Highly recommend if you are into self hosting.

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Matt@netmonkey.tech
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I used to run FreshRSS and it worked well. I now use an app that just pulls feeds directly and syncs to iCloud. It isn’t quite as good as FreshRSS, but it works fine for me.

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roofuskit@kbin.social
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If you haven’t already joined there are selfhosted communities on the Fediverse.

After Google killed reader I used Newsblur for a while but didn’t really feel like it was worth the price of admission. So I rolled up a FreshRSS server myself. I really like it. I use the FeedMe app on Android.

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dan@upvote.au
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Are you me? I did the exact same thing - Google Reader, then NewsBlur, then FreshRSS. I use Readrops on Android though, rather than FeedMe.

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death916@lemmy.death916.xyz
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I keep freshrss open in a smallish window on one of my monitors at all time. It alike a scrolling feed of all the news and things of the day and I can glance at it or check it as needed.

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asjmcguire@kbin.social
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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)

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francorbacho@kbin.social
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What hashtags in particular are you subscribed to?

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asjmcguire@kbin.social
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#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.

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francorbacho@kbin.social
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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!

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Schnaftator@lemmy.sdf.org
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Wow, your comment took me down a rabbit hole. I now too self-host FreshRSS on my NAS using Docker. And, oh boy, this is so good!

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asjmcguire@kbin.social
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Excellent! If you looking for an Android app - although the PWA is pretty good too, Readrops is what I use, because it supports the GoogleReader API that FreshRSS exposes.

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Schnaftator@lemmy.sdf.org
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Will definitely check out that app. I’ve used Feedly so far, but was pretty amazed by FreshRSS’ PWA.

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