You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I’m after.
What RSS clients out there are worth looking at? I notice several have self-hosted server solutions which is interesting. I don’t care if it’s free, open source, paid or whatever though, I just want a good experience.
FreshRSS - Not too big on RSS, but for me it does the job. Also, If I understood correctly there is an Open API so you can use another Client with FreshRSS Back End
Another vote for FreshRSS. It’s a self hosted solution. I’m a bit of a data hoarder so mine is set to never purge articles, and edits are treated as new articles.
Clients I use:
- NewsFlash on Linux
- NetNewsWire on iOS or Mac
I’ve been so happy with rediscovering rss via FreshRSS and NetNewsWire that I’m chiming in on old threads. That is all. 🤙🏻
I’m using the opinionated and self-hosted reader Miniflux in combination with a browser plugin for Chrome. This way I see the amount of unread RSS items and I can either click them to open them or just mark them as read. Not sure if it’s for everyone, but I like it a lot :) Just figured it should get a mention here.
Another vote for Miniflux. If you like a Reader-type interface, check out reminiflux (it’s just an alternative frontend).
This with the matrix integration works great for me.
I selfhost FreshRSS and connect to it with Reeder on iOS.
Have you tried Unread on iOS? I ask because my setup is FreshRSS -> Unread, so I’m curious if it’s worth buying Reeder.
I haven’t. I just installed it to check it out, but I don’t even see a freshRSS sync option.
Ah, I use the fever API.
Ok it works, I tried it a little bit. I like the swipe left/right to get to move around and get options, but I’m not a fan of the way groups/categories work. On Reeder I get the classic folder structure: each feed is inside the category. On Unread I can select the single feed (but they’re all unorganized) OR I can select the category (in that case the feeds are mixed by default, or they’re ordered by website but in that case I have to manually scroll through all posts of other websites of the same category before I can get to the one I want to read). I don’t know if I explained myself, but I basically find it quicker to get to the content I want using Reeder’s way. In the same category/topic I might have feeds that I check daily and other ones that I barely check every now and then, and that’s not a problem with Reeder (I do a weekly “mark all as read” if the backlog gets too long), while I feel it gets a little hard to do the same thing on Unread.
Anyway, that’s how I browse feeds. If you like Unread, go on with it. Sorry for the wall of text.
Awesome, thanks for giving me an in depth comparison!
Yeah, I basically just look at all of my feeds in one list most of the time, though I do have groups in Unread. I guess I’m not super clear on how reeder differs, but if it is actually better for reading infrequent articles and stuff I’d be curious. I should probably just pay the $5 and try it…
I’m a fan of Inoreader.
I love Reeder for iOS. For service I’ve been using Feedly since the beginning so I’ve stuck with them. But these days there is probably better (and cheaper) options.
I use Reeder as well, with my feeds coming from Feedbin. Reeder has an option to use iCloud to hold & sync feeds across your devices, but I haven’t had good luck with that.
I use the Miniflux standalone podcast reader with Wallabag and submit selected articles to Wallabag for later reading. I also use the Newsboat CLI client which can sync with Miniflux installations as an alternative to the web interface it’s comfortable.
Feeder on F-droid
Nextcloud News, if you already have Nextcloud set up. There’s also an Android app for it that connects to the server.
Agreed, Nextcloud News is awesome! The app too. And it’s a given that Nextcloud itself is already awesome.
^ This. The Android app is quite nice. For iOS readers, you should use netnewswire
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Thunderbird’s Blogs and News Feeds feature. Allows me to backup RSS feed data alongside my emails in MBOX format via the ImportExportTools NG add-on.
Also interested in a good client for MacOS or iOS. I’ve been using freshrss for the serverside of things, and it works amazingly well!
TT-RSS (Tiny Tiny RSS). It’s the most complete for selfhosting.
I’m using https://miniflux.app/ and I’m very happy with it.
This looks neat. I can’t get it to pull images though, any ideas?
In settings under sources, you can try changing the default target to load the full content if the images are not shown. It depends on the RSS implementation.
This is exactly what I did but it’s not pulling them. Might be on Lemmy’s side perhaps?
Edit: it’s not pulling in preview images like in the screenshots. It’s pulling article images from other feeds like Hacker News though when you open the full article.
Could be. I haven’t tried with Lemmy. Will try later and mention you with my results.
Thanks heaps!
@xaxl@lemmy.world Did some testing and it seems that it doesn’t load images through RSS but if you select load webpage, it will show the image.
Ah, that’s weird and unfortunate. Thanks for checking though.
