Re:Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader
by raspyberr on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:27PM
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I love RSS/Atom. Completely stopped using the main social medias. With RSS, you are your own newsfeed algorithm. I've been using Newsblur but I will switch away soon. It's too heavy and I'd prefer to self-host.
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Can I recommend you take a look at Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/)? I'm a customer and really like it - it is possible to self host.
I used to have a "standard" RSS reader a long time ago but then got swamped in the hundreds of posts I didn't (have time to) read. It was such a big source of FOMO I had to completely stop using it.
Now i'm happy using fraidycat (https://fraidyc.at/) because it behaves the way I want: a very active source will only overshadow itself. Instead I have a list of all sources and I can have a quick look of the latest article of each source on the same screen. When I feel a source is too noisy it means I'm not interested in every single post, so I push it down to lower levels of importance, who live in a different tab. I know stuff happens there but I'm rarely interested so it's ok if I check only once a week for example.
I use Tiny Tiny RSS as a self-hosted solution, very quick to setup and offers lot's of features. The UI is a bit hard to use from a smartphone, though, at least with my font sizes.
There's at least one Android reader and a mobile-optimized view available: https://github.com/mboinet/ttrss-mobile