Stop using Social Media for News, RSS is Much Better!
RSS is one place for you to quickly sift through numerous sources of news quickly and efficiently. It’s up to you to decide what feeds to add – as many or as few as you […]
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Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds with an extra bell and whistle
RSS feed apps are a really great way to focus on what you want to see and read about, but once you’ve read the feeds, the app is blank as it only shows what is […]
Elon Musk Gutted Their App. Now They Want To Make One That’s Billionaire-Proof: Tapestry will be RSS
“Twitterrific was our flagship app, and by far earned the most of any of our pieces of software we’ve produced. Its loss is still being felt revenue-wise to this day. We’re hopeful that Tapestry will […]
Not only can any RSS reader follow a Mastodon Profile’s posts, they can also follow any Hashtags on a Server
In stark contrast to X yet again (and now the final straw for me) breaking API interaction with a profile, Mastodon makes it way easier to follow posts without even visiting the network. Many knew […]
Fluent Reader is a modern looking open-source desktop app for RSS News Reading
Are you frustrated with trying to source news about your interests from busy social media bias, or all the clutter and distractions of actual news websites? Don’t have time to visit 20 different websites to […]
Who killed Google Reader? Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been
Back when it still existed at all. Google’s feed-reading tool offered a powerful way to curate and read the internet and was beloved by its users. Reader launched in 2005, right as the blogging era […]
Cross-Platform Open-Source Fluent Reader is my current best choice for an offline RSS news aggregator
I’ve happily been using self-hosted web-based FreshRSS for a while now. I chose it mainly because it suited my needs, and when I travelled regularly, I could work from the same shared source of articles. […]
Open source Five Filters Full Text RSS can be self-hosted in a Docker container to retrieve full text from RSS articles
Chris did a nice breakdown of how this can work in conjunction with a self-hosted Fresh RSS reader (same as I’m using). It solves that issue with some RSS feeds only showing a short snippet […]
Where to get RSS feed alerts for Netflix content leaving soon
It’s really irritating that Netflix does not send you monthly lists of what content is leaving in the coming month (like they announce all the new arrivals). Whilst there are a few blogs and apps […]
Vivaldi launches its own email client with integrated calendar and RSS reader
After spending a year in beta, Vivaldi Mail and Calendar are now officially out on the stable channel. Vivaldi Mail 1.0 is built into the Vivaldi browser and incorporates Vivaldi Calendar and Feed Reader. The […]