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What if I told you that I have never used Google to view RSS news feeds? It seems to me that these stereotypes about people’s attachment to Google services only take place somewhere in the USA and Europe.

Inoreader ftw!

On IOS try feeeed

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/feeeed-rss-reader-and-more/id1600187490

I love TinyTinyRSS (self hosted) and lire for iOS which syncs with it. Very powerful setup. I have issues with overusing social media sites so I have sites like Lemmy do the "Top Week" and so on for areas I'm interested in.

I've tried so many times. I went ahead and checked out feedly right now just to have them change my mind, and they failed miserably. You run into paywall issues right away, they don't list pretty major newspapers I would assume to have rss, and adding something like business insider or the independent gives you so much dung mixed with the things you are actually interested in.

Let's say I'm into business, but don't want car related news? What if I'm into investing yet don't want to hear about Trump?

If there was something like "more like this"/"less like this" function, then maybe, but just at a glance, one of many, I don't see how it could present me with the info I want in the structure I want.

Global events and news
Economical trends on both macro and micro level for specific domains
Exclude entertainment, sports, fashion, drama
Update every hour
Total headlines max 30 per day
Max visible 7 at a time.

I've tried, and it's not worth the hassle even trying to set that up. For me, at least.

Adding any RSS feed is like getting an information enema with raisins sprinkled in.

I want to get into RSS but all the apps I've tried have been lacking. I want to subscribe to the Factorio blog and be able to see their GIFs/videos directly but so far no app has been able to do that. Either they don't load any images (wtf?) or they just load a static preview that I then have to click to actually play. Does anyone know of an RSS app that can load GIFs/videos automatically?

I kinda just like going to the site. It doesn't have to be rss or social media.

I started fiddling with a self hosted rss thing but never got around to putting the app on my new phone. I might give a different one a try sometime it was kinda basic.

I always wonder if the sites I'm interested in are using rss, that's why I never really tried it.

I highly recommend NewsBlur if you don’t want to host your own.

Anyone else use NewsBlur Apps or WebApp. They have a free and paid, which works well enough to aggregate the sites I need to get a diverse news collection in an RSS like format.

I still miss google reader and past times, but gotta adapt.

I miss Press from TwentyFive Squares. The theme was very e-ink-ish, worked great, felt nice, didn't have any of the annoying garbage that's since become pretty norm for readers.

Still works on older Android OSes, I think. But since Press hasn't updated since 2014, it doesn't have security for new Android, I think.

Wonder if it would work on Graphene or something?

The problem with most rss readers IMHO is that they lack a decent filter function. ttrss had great filters, but I stopped using it when they switched their dev process (I think to docker at the time, which I couldn't use with my hoster). Now using rss guard, not too happy but surviving.

RSS is great, but often contains a lot of noise. If you can filter only what you care about, great. Otherwise it's just information overload.

Why should I expose myself to be force-fed social media stuff?

The example feed in that article is so boring that it makes me want to kill myself.

I mean, I’m all for it, but I thought the problem was that so many sites stopped offering RSS output options.