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Ask HN: How do you use RSS?

I find Feedly and all those apps too bloated. Is there just a minimal plaintext site (in an HN style) where I can get links to my subscriptions in a list?
( 7 comments | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: How do you use RSS? by kennethko on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:14AM (#27830199)
You may want to look at Miniflux[0] to see if that fits your needs. There's a paid hosting option, but it's also straightforward to deploy on a VPS or your localhost.

Alternatively, you could also look at having yet another app like Reeder[1] that syncs to Feedly, FreshRSS, Miniflux, etc. while helping to clean up the browsing and reading experience.

[0] https://miniflux.app/ [1] https://www.reederapp.com/

Re:Ask HN: How do you use RSS? by jjjbokma on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:00PM (#27836128)
If you use Emacs you can access RSS feeds via Gnus: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusRss
Re:Ask HN: How do you use RSS? by fsiefken on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @07:23AM (#27831854)
sfeed command line https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html

it can output to gopher, twtxt, mbox and html. gemini export would be nice so I can do everything in gemini. you can't really get more minimal

I didn't know about twtxt, it's awesome.

Re:Ask HN: How do you use RSS? by mastrsushi on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:26AM (#27833386)
Can Sfeed run entirely in a browser? I should of said my goal is to be able to run this on my iPhone without an app. I was thinking of using GitHub pages as a host.
Re:Ask HN: How do you use RSS? by fsiefken on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:08PM (#27840023)
If you can somehow run it through github actions and output to styled html see: https://codemadness.org/downloads/sfeed/html/feeds.html not sure if it would fit on the screen.

alternatively you could export to gopher put he file/files on a gopher server and read in the gopher client app on ios https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gopher-client/id1235310088

Re:Ask HN: How do you use RSS? by nickmyersdt on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:59AM (#27830446)
I use/like Inoreader (Android)
Re:Ask HN: How do you use RSS? by kilodeca on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:15AM (#27829943)
Look into Open-source ones.