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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff (joeyehand.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Please do recommend RSS apps for all platforms. Currently using:

Android: Read You iOS/Mac: Unread

[–] Lemminary 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Android: Read You

Is it available from an app store? I only found the apk on GitHub but I'd rather not update manually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

It’s available on F-droid not sure about playstore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I use https://miniflux.app/. It's pretty small, costs $15/year. I do this because I want to keep my feed status across different devices.

I'm not perfectly happy with it. Perhaps it's a bit too minimal. When I subscribe to an aggregate like Hacker News, it pretty much floods my feed and I get swamped.

If anyone has a slightly better alternative in mind, I'd be happy to hear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] tyrant 5 points 1 day ago

I'm using feeder on android and it's working well for me. On desktop I use Firefox extension but can't remember the name

[–] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Inoreader does this web and Android/Apple clean controls and responsive UI.

Paid version has a ton of enhancements including trending things among other users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’ve been using Feedly on iOS for a few years since google dropped their rss client.

[–] Mbourgon 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was on Feedly, have now moved to News Explorer for iOS. Self hosted (runs on device), synchronizes between iOS devices using iCloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Have you tried Unread on iOS? I find it more intuitive than News Explorer. I find News Explorer to be buggy.

[–] x00z 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used Feedly for a bit but they were extremely pricey. They didn't have a free tier back then.

For their €7/month price you can rent a VPS and selfhost FreshRSS with a lot more stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

At the point, might as well build your own home server 😂

[–] kazerniel 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Newsblur in desktop web browser, 36 USD / year

It has a FLOSS version and a more limited free version hosted by them, but the 2.5 GBP / month was worth the QoL increase for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Currently, I use Newblur for subscribing to feeds and then link it with other RSS apps. (The NewsBlur mobile app is terrible.)