Comment on Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web
infeeeee@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s strange that the author only checks offline readers. I selfhost FreshRSS, and I love that I can just switch between my desktop and phone, and read the next article on the bus or somewhere else. For those not into selfhosing aforementioned FreshRSS offers some free and paid 3rd party options: www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html
The other RSS tool I can’t live without is the Firefox addon Want My RSS: It adds a little RSS icon on the sidebar on websites which has feeds, so while browsing it’s just one click and you are subscribed! addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
It’s really not that weird. Most people aren’t going to self-host… anything. A news magazine isn’t going to bother covering it, even if it is focused on tech news.
infeeeee@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Not selfhosting but single device usage. I never understood offline readers, I got into rss with Google Reader (never forget), rss was always an online thing for me, like social media. Tried some desktop readers, but always as a sync client, not standalone. My reader journey was: Google reader -> Feedly -> TTRSS -> Freshrss
a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I always used offline reader because the feeds i subscribed to don’t have that many updates (most of them are currently webcomics updating 1-3 times a week) so i generally just check on it a few times a day and none of it is really urgent, so there is not really much point in expanding the time where i could check on it. Another factor might also be that i started using RSS with Firefoxes inbuilt reader (which they removed back in 2018) which didn’t sync across devices, so i was just used to it being like that.