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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] 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I use self hosted FreshRSS. I has:

news straight from the section I care about in chronological order order
new blog updates
music review updates
Bandcamp releases from artists/labels I follow
open source software releases I follow
YouTube updates from channels I follow.
etc

It is by far the best way to get updates about just the things you care about.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I started using FreshRSS around the same time Reddit killed their API, it has rapidly become one of my favorite self-hosted apps.

Also,

open source software releases I follow

You have just taught me that I can add github release pages to my feed, I love FreshRSS even more now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Yes. Monitoring GitHub for releases is great (especially if the project posts change logs). Also, if you are a developer and need to monitor library updates for any deps you app might have, many of those sites also have rss feeds. For example: https://libraries.io/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I use Feeder on android, which just lives on my phone instead of on my server.

Would you say there are distinct advantages to self hosting an RSS reader? Most of the time when im browsing sites and reading it's on my phone, not my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I’m at my laptop all day for work so I use it on my laptop, desktop, and phone so syncing is important. Since it support Google reader api, there are a ton of different clients for it too.

I’ve also set my wife up with her own account and it makes sharing articles and feeds with her easy.

I’m a big self hoster and already have an environment set up for it. I don’t know if it is worth setting up servers and vpns and security just for rss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

You can do both. FreshRSS for example allows you to subscribe to it like you would subscribe to any RSS feed