Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Oct 2024 17:34
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The problem is finding a good local, desktop based RSS reader other than thunderbird or a damn server app, especially if you’re on Windows.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
on 16 Oct 2024 17:38
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What’s wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don’t use Outlook by choice?
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Oct 2024 17:52
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UI is too bloated, slow, resource hungry and I’ve had problems with displaying some feed content in the past.
Outlook
God forbid.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 18:34
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That’s surprising. I found it be underpowered as an RSS reader, personally. Although I am really only using it for news - I know some people who use it for videos, etc.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Oct 2024 18:48
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I know some people who use it for videos, etc.
That’s one of my problems with Thunderbid, anything that isn’t a HTML page just has loads of problems with it. In fact, most of the readers recommended above by other people suffer from the same problems, it kind of sucks.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Oct 2024 21:38
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Good question.
I’m yet to find something that supports notifications, handles podcasts/videos and isn’t janky as all hell or hasn’t been abandoned for a decade by now.
Zachariah@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 17:47
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rottenwheel@lemmy.zip
on 17 Oct 2024 03:14
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I had been using Fluent Reader for months, suddenly the program wouldn’t load up at all upon start. No visible GUI. Didn’t back up my subscriptions so now I lost all my RSS links with it. :-/
Hopefully there’s an update soon, or someone has a trick to retrieve my subscriptions, at least.
Btw, what is a non-local RSS reader? I have come across multiple that RSS readers that advertise being “self-hosted” and I’m confused about that since in my mind RSS readers are simply clients that periodically query different servers for an .rss file, so I’m confused about where there is anything to host besides the host of the .rss feed.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Oct 2024 18:46
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The idea is to imitate the experience of something like Feedly, an RSS feed you can access from anywhere on any device, recommendations, all that… Which is overkill if all you want is just a simple program that queries for new posts every x hours.
helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 16 Oct 2024 22:51
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Cross device synchronization, battery optimization for mobile devices, faster update speeds, etc.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world
on 17 Oct 2024 01:24
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It makes more sense to have a server downloading and consolidating the data from the various sources, rather than syncing and downloading from dozens or hundreds of sources to build the feed in real time.
It’s technically possible to do it all client side, but it would put more load on the RSS sources, and be a much slower user experience.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
on 17 Oct 2024 02:13
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It’s just a web based client instead of a desktop one. And it can usually output its own RSS feed that contains your other feeds so you can hook any RSS desktop client on any device to it.
datendefekt@lemmy.ml
on 16 Oct 2024 18:22
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I’m out of the loop since I’ve been using a self hosted Miniflux, but Raven certainly is an alternative.
Lumilias@pawb.social
on 16 Oct 2024 23:08
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It’s also been archived for a year with no revamp in sight.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 18:32
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I find the Feedbro plugin for Firefox quite handy.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 17 Oct 2024 15:04
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It’s what I’ve been using recently, but I really dislike how it’s a browser extension, that and how it can’t really handle audio files from my experience.
AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 17:39
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Love me some RSS.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de
on 16 Oct 2024 17:39
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I never stopped. I went from feeds in Netscape Navigator to Google Reader to Feedly and now I self-host Miniflux.
Similar here, Google Reader -> Feedly -> selfhosted TT-RSS -> selfhosted FreshRSS
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
on 16 Oct 2024 17:45
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Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you’ve read in it.
What is this shitty email program they’re talking about? Sure, they can embed a 1-pixel tracking image to see when you opened the email (if you allow auto-loading images), but how would they know how much you’ve read unless some incredibly horrible email program actively sends out that data?
Yeah I’ve never heard of that either, and I’ve used email marketing platforms. They have a lot of analytics, but nothing anywhere near that level. (Granted, this was also back in like 2010.)
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de
on 16 Oct 2024 18:04
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Most made by large corps. For example, Apple got in some hot water not too long ago for changing the way they track in Apple Mail.
Servers track sent, delivered, bounced, and blocked.
Clients phone home with opened, read, CTR, and junk status.
Just… wow. I don’t even enable notifications that I’ve opened an email.
neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space
on 16 Oct 2024 17:56
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I use the Feedbro extension right in my browser.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Oct 2024 17:56
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When Reddit went to shit I turned to RSS to get my daily news. After trying many different iOS apps, all of which either sucked or had a monthly fee, I came across one called feeeed.
It has become one of my favorite apps and I highly recommend it. It’s free and extremely well designed! I believe its creator also works on the Arc browser team.
willya@lemmyf.uk
on 16 Oct 2024 18:27
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Hey, thanks… this looks clean/feels really slick.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Oct 2024 18:44
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I definitely recommend turning on List view in the settings. The default card view is okay but it only lets you see 1-2 things at a time vs 5-6.
reddig33@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 18:49
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old.reddit still has RSS feeds for subreddits, if there’s anything you still want to follow there. e.g. old.reddit.com/r/technology.rss
The lemmy community for my city is completely dead, so I follow the subreddit this way.
Mbourgon@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 22:20
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Also for iOS, News Explorer. It uses iCloud to sync between your devices, everything is on device, and it will even somehow do Reddit feeds! (Uh, I mean, if you still do that, maybe…). One time payment. Glorious.
StanTheMan@lemmy.world
on 17 Oct 2024 01:08
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Thank you for recommendation. Loving it already!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Oct 2024 17:57
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I kinda gave up on rss awhile ago when it seemed like feed availability was dropping and Google dropped support. Disagree with author that the reader doesn’t matter. It can really shape your experience. Appreciate good recommendation for something that doesn’t cost $2 a month.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 18:49
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For android, I use Feeder, but I’ve also enjoyed Cappy, Neo Feed, Twine, and Nunti. Nunti is a really interesting one that uses a local, private smart algorithm to show you more of what interests you.
Jackthelad@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 18:05
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I’ve used Feedly for years and it makes keeping with various types of news so much easier.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 18:24
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Me too. I went Google reader to feedly and have been there since
kratoz29@lemm.ee
on 16 Oct 2024 21:57
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I’d love that it had the feature that Feeder has to fetch incomplete RSS articles and put them in a nice view… Only because of that I have used Feeder more as of lately (still Feedly is my main RSS source).
mipadaitu@lemmy.world
on 17 Oct 2024 01:25
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I recently switched to a self hosted FreshRSS. I used Feedly for probably a decade tho.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
on 16 Oct 2024 18:10
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I’m more interested in good RSS feeds than RSS readers. Of courseI’ve got all my news in there, but I’m looking to add interesting feeds but don’t know where to look.
TheOne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 16 Oct 2024 18:12
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What are you interested in? I might suggest you some.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
on 16 Oct 2024 18:50
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Thanks! I’m into psychology, technology, history and analytics of current affairs (background of conflicts or consequences for the rest of the world). I would love to hear your tips, if you’ve got some good recommendations.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
on 17 Oct 2024 06:48
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I need to dive into substack to see if it can work with my rss reader. Is Heather Cox worth the subscription?
keystonerose@lemmy.nz
on 16 Oct 2024 21:57
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I get a lot of mileage out of The Conversation’s feeds (theconversation.com) – interesting academic-ish essays, written for a lay audience
Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
on 17 Oct 2024 06:47
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Thanks a lot. Looks real good and added to my feeds
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 17 Oct 2024 07:06
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‘continue without agreeing’
instant w
christophski@feddit.uk
on 16 Oct 2024 18:29
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I need an android rss reader that ACTUALLY caches the articles. I use feeder and most of the time it just fetches the titles, I’ve been through every setting. “fetch full articles by default” is on for all of my feeds.
muelltonne@feddit.org
on 16 Oct 2024 21:01
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Kind of not what you’re looking for, but use rss2email to send everything as a mail to a mail address.
merde@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Oct 2024 23:32
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Twine is a great simple RSS reader and it is open source.
I am currently using NewsBlur because I like how it syncs across devices and its tagging system. It is also open source, but it is not the prettiest and the UX takes some getting used to.
Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Oct 2024 19:17
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Hasn’t RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don’t know how true that is.
baatliwala@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 19:34
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Probably not technically true because podcasts use RSS
But a few make it very hard to find the .rss link… as do platforms like Spotify or Apple.
BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world
on 16 Oct 2024 19:19
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The author of this excellent article mentioned that we and by extension, our friends, all hate being on TwiXter etc. but cant figure out a day to leave or place to go. While I believe the ‘place’ should be figured out amongst yourselves and there are many excellent options getting better by the day, I will do the hard thing and choose a time to make it easier for you/us…
December 28th, 2024
Please be sure to have you destination decided ahead of time. Just like voting, I suggest you do it early and feel free to be a part of the advance team that straddles between the new location while still using the former ahead of the 28th.
I believe in you and know you can do it. Tell your friends. …and you’re welcome :)
edit: RSS is a great tool that will make the move easier
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The problem is finding a good local, desktop based RSS reader other than thunderbird or a damn server app, especially if you’re on Windows.
What’s wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don’t use Outlook by choice?
UI is too bloated, slow, resource hungry and I’ve had problems with displaying some feed content in the past.
God forbid.
That’s surprising. I found it be underpowered as an RSS reader, personally. Although I am really only using it for news - I know some people who use it for videos, etc.
That’s one of my problems with Thunderbid, anything that isn’t a HTML page just has loads of problems with it. In fact, most of the readers recommended above by other people suffer from the same problems, it kind of sucks.
What’s one that doesn’t suck?
Good question.
I’m yet to find something that supports notifications, handles podcasts/videos and isn’t janky as all hell or hasn’t been abandoned for a decade by now.
hyliu.me/fluent-reader/
github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
I had been using Fluent Reader for months, suddenly the program wouldn’t load up at all upon start. No visible GUI. Didn’t back up my subscriptions so now I lost all my RSS links with it. :-/ Hopefully there’s an update soon, or someone has a trick to retrieve my subscriptions, at least.
Btw, what is a non-local RSS reader? I have come across multiple that RSS readers that advertise being “self-hosted” and I’m confused about that since in my mind RSS readers are simply clients that periodically query different servers for an .rss file, so I’m confused about where there is anything to host besides the host of the .rss feed.
The idea is to imitate the experience of something like Feedly, an RSS feed you can access from anywhere on any device, recommendations, all that… Which is overkill if all you want is just a simple program that queries for new posts every x hours.
Cross device synchronization, battery optimization for mobile devices, faster update speeds, etc.
It makes more sense to have a server downloading and consolidating the data from the various sources, rather than syncing and downloading from dozens or hundreds of sources to build the feed in real time.
It’s technically possible to do it all client side, but it would put more load on the RSS sources, and be a much slower user experience.
It’s just a web based client instead of a desktop one. And it can usually output its own RSS feed that contains your other feeds so you can hook any RSS desktop client on any device to it.
I’m out of the loop since I’ve been using a self hosted Miniflux, but Raven certainly is an alternative.
It’s also been archived for a year with no revamp in sight.
Feedly, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, yarr, etc.
Thunderbird is fine, but I don’t really want to interact with my feed how I interact with email.
Reeder on iOS and Mac is excellent. Not open source, but lovingly crafted by an indie dev.
I find the Feedbro plugin for Firefox quite handy.
It’s what I’ve been using recently, but I really dislike how it’s a browser extension, that and how it can’t really handle audio files from my experience.
Love me some RSS.
I never stopped. I went from feeds in Netscape Navigator to Google Reader to Feedly and now I self-host Miniflux.
Similar here, Google Reader -> Feedly -> selfhosted TT-RSS -> selfhosted FreshRSS
What is this shitty email program they’re talking about? Sure, they can embed a 1-pixel tracking image to see when you opened the email (if you allow auto-loading images), but how would they know how much you’ve read unless some incredibly horrible email program actively sends out that data?
Yeah I’ve never heard of that either, and I’ve used email marketing platforms. They have a lot of analytics, but nothing anywhere near that level. (Granted, this was also back in like 2010.)
Most made by large corps. For example, Apple got in some hot water not too long ago for changing the way they track in Apple Mail.
Servers track sent, delivered, bounced, and blocked.
Clients phone home with opened, read, CTR, and junk status.
Just… wow. I don’t even enable notifications that I’ve opened an email.
I use the Feedbro extension right in my browser.
When Reddit went to shit I turned to RSS to get my daily news. After trying many different iOS apps, all of which either sucked or had a monthly fee, I came across one called feeeed.
It has become one of my favorite apps and I highly recommend it. It’s free and extremely well designed! I believe its creator also works on the Arc browser team.
Hey, thanks… this looks clean/feels really slick.
I definitely recommend turning on List view in the settings. The default card view is okay but it only lets you see 1-2 things at a time vs 5-6.
NetNewsWire works great for me.
I’m using News Explorer. One-time purchase, and syncs your feeds and read/unread status between macOS and iOS/ipadOS.
old.reddit still has RSS feeds for subreddits, if there’s anything you still want to follow there. e.g. old.reddit.com/r/technology.rss
The lemmy community for my city is completely dead, so I follow the subreddit this way.
Also for iOS, News Explorer. It uses iCloud to sync between your devices, everything is on device, and it will even somehow do Reddit feeds! (Uh, I mean, if you still do that, maybe…). One time payment. Glorious.
Thank you for recommendation. Loving it already!
I kinda gave up on rss awhile ago when it seemed like feed availability was dropping and Google dropped support. Disagree with author that the reader doesn’t matter. It can really shape your experience. Appreciate good recommendation for something that doesn’t cost $2 a month.
stackdiary.com/free-rss-readers/
This was pretty useful to me.
For android, I use Feeder, but I’ve also enjoyed Cappy, Neo Feed, Twine, and Nunti. Nunti is a really interesting one that uses a local, private smart algorithm to show you more of what interests you.
I’ve used Feedly for years and it makes keeping with various types of news so much easier.
Me too. I went Google reader to feedly and have been there since
I’d love that it had the feature that Feeder has to fetch incomplete RSS articles and put them in a nice view… Only because of that I have used Feeder more as of lately (still Feedly is my main RSS source).
I recently switched to a self hosted FreshRSS. I used Feedly for probably a decade tho.
I’m more interested in good RSS feeds than RSS readers. Of courseI’ve got all my news in there, but I’m looking to add interesting feeds but don’t know where to look.
What are you interested in? I might suggest you some.
Thanks! I’m into psychology, technology, history and analytics of current affairs (background of conflicts or consequences for the rest of the world). I would love to hear your tips, if you’ve got some good recommendations.
Commenting to come back later for recos
Arts and letters daily is great. Overlaps a bit with your interests, though not every day.
Aldaily.com
Indeed not fully convinced but not bad either. Gonna give this a go, thanks!
Holy shit, I just drafted a long list as a comment on you and forget to click post.
😓, damn you Jerboa for Lemmy.
I might post the list again later.
Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.
I need to dive into substack to see if it can work with my rss reader. Is Heather Cox worth the subscription?
I get a lot of mileage out of The Conversation’s feeds (theconversation.com) – interesting academic-ish essays, written for a lay audience
Thanks a lot. Looks real good and added to my feeds
‘continue without agreeing’
instant w
I need an android rss reader that ACTUALLY caches the articles. I use feeder and most of the time it just fetches the titles, I’ve been through every setting. “fetch full articles by default” is on for all of my feeds.
Kind of not what you’re looking for, but use rss2email to send everything as a mail to a mail address.
☞ f-droid.org/packages/ru.yanus171.feedexfork/ or github.com/yanus171/Handy-News-Reader
Not sure why you were down voted, thanks for the recommendations!
Much of the time, the sites only put a small blurb and a link to the actual article in the feed, so you still have to click through to read it all.
Any good readers for IOS that don’t require a subscription (preferably FOSS)?
Twine is a great simple RSS reader and it is open source.
I am currently using NewsBlur because I like how it syncs across devices and its tagging system. It is also open source, but it is not the prettiest and the UX takes some getting used to.
Hasn’t RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don’t know how true that is.
Probably not technically true because podcasts use RSS
But a few make it very hard to find the .rss link… as do platforms like Spotify or Apple.
The author of this excellent article mentioned that we and by extension, our friends, all hate being on TwiXter etc. but cant figure out a day to leave or place to go. While I believe the ‘place’ should be figured out amongst yourselves and there are many excellent options getting better by the day, I will do the hard thing and choose a time to make it easier for you/us…
December 28th, 2024
Please be sure to have you destination decided ahead of time. Just like voting, I suggest you do it early and feel free to be a part of the advance team that straddles between the new location while still using the former ahead of the 28th.
I believe in you and know you can do it. Tell your friends. …and you’re welcome :)
edit: RSS is a great tool that will make the move easier
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For websites that don’t have an RSS feed, check out RSS-bridge! github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
It generates web feeds for websites that don’t have one.
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A no-install, no-config option I built for this purpose: rss.diffbot.com
Interesting, ill try this
i think youtube still supports rss feeds
i think some channels can turn it off but most don’t.
Is that buried in the UI behind paywall and requiring an account?
nope, it’s just the channel url. works with most rss readers.
watching the actual video isnt available, it’s just a chronological feed.
OMFG that’s actually pretty cool!
newsboat.org