Tristan

10 months ago

Tristan
10 months ago

Gentle, biannual reminder that RSS is great and can be another tool in your toolbox to curate your online experience, improve mental health, and stay informed. It's also a much more accessible way to consume news if you have a client that handles full-text extraction. I've just updated my public list of RSS feeds after going nearly a whole year without doing so: tristanb.me/feeds/. this is a comprehensive list of most of the feeds that I follow, split up by category. #RSS #accessibility

RSS Feeds

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Simon Jaeger

in reply to Tristan 10 months ago

What's your setup for following those now? There are a lot of reader options and I have no idea what's considered good and up-to-date. Do you still sync them on a server?

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Tristan

in reply to Simon Jaeger 10 months ago

@simon I self-host miniflux.app/ and use lire on mobile, which has native support for Miniflux out of the box. Lire provides native push notifications and the ability to edit, add, or remove feeds/folders, and the Miniflux web app is an exemplary experience with great keyboard support when on desktop. I haven't changed this setup in years and it just works™️.

Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader

Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader

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Erion

in reply to Tristan 10 months ago

Miniflux is fantastic. I have been running a private instance for years without issues, except when reddit blocks it.

On the Mac, you can use NetNewsWire, which uses the Googld Reader API integration, it works quite well.

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Tristan

in reply to Erion 10 months ago

@erion @simon I didn't realize NetNewsWire could hook into Google Reader compatible things. This is good to know. I've had it installed for years and never really got too deep into using it.

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Erion

in reply to Tristan 10 months ago

The only reason why I am aware is because I didn't really want to read via the browser and Miniflux does not provide an aggregated rss feed to subscribe to. I really need to sit down one day and just send them a PR.

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Mikołaj Hołysz

in reply to Tristan 10 months ago

IMO, email / imap is a far better protocol for this than RSS. Unread statuses and the articles themselves sync between devices, so do folders, and it's all interoperable and supported by almost anything.

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