Blogger discovers this cool thing called “RSS”.

  • @farcaster
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    85 hours ago

    I’ve been interested in trying out RSS again but I don’t want to self-host. Can anyone recommend a RSS client (hosted, local, or whatever) that they like?

    • @plenipotentprotogod
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      74 hours ago

      It can be as simple as just putting an app on your phone. I use feeder which is fine. Pretty bare bones, but in that way it’s easy to learn and use.

      I’ve also been meaning to try out an app called Nunti, which I heard about a while ago from this Lemmy post. It claims to be an RSS reader with the added benefit of an (open source and fully local) algorithm to provide some light curation of your feed. It looks interesting, but I haven’t actually tried it out yet because I’m still deciding whether I want any algorithm curating my feed, even one as transparent as Nunti’s. It’s also only available through F-Droid right now, which is a bit of a barrier to entry.

      • @evasive_chimpanzee
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        33 hours ago

        If it’s open source, you could perhaps tinker with the algorithm. My main desires for rss feeds are:

        • a way to filter out fluff affiliate link articles (e.g., 8 best gadgets on sale for prime day)
        • a way to cluster articles on the same topic (i don’t really need to read 5 articles about the same news item)

        Any clue if nunti could do that?

        • @plenipotentprotogod
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          12 hours ago

          Man, I feel you on the affiliate link fluff. I actually ended up unsubscribing from the Popular Mechanics and Popular Science feeds because the signal to noise ratio was so bad.

          The creator of Nunti provided a very good primer on the algorithm design here. Basically, you indicate to the app whether you like or dislike an article and then it does some keyword extraction in the background and tries to show you similar articles in the future. I suppose you might be able to dislike a bunch of the fluff and hope the filter picks up on it, but it isn’t really designed to support the kind of rules that would completely purge a certain type of content from your feed.

          • @evasive_chimpanzee
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            125 minutes ago

            Oh wow, they really did a good job of explaining it. It’s not too complex. I think it probably would be able to filter out some of the fluff.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 hours ago

        The fact that it’s only available through fdroid is actually a good thing in my opinion.

    • @8uurg
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      54 hours ago

      Thunderbird has RSS integrated, which could be quite neat once that synchronizes.

    • @adam_y
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      54 hours ago

      I’ve had some decent times with inoreader.

      • @farcaster
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        24 hours ago

        inoreader seems very ergonomic, thanks!

    • InstructionsNotClear
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      24 hours ago

      I prefer the Feedbro browser extension in Firefox. I think it is available for chrome/edge as well.