A few months ago, I set up Miniflux and I love it. Ars Technica, Hackaday, local news, and several monthly blogs all in one spot.

I’ve been using inoreader’s free tier for years, happy to see it mentioned in the article. On top of deshitifying your news feed, accessing by RSS is often enough to bypass the free article limits or subscriptions on a lot of the news and journalism sites.

Yay Molly White!

I definitely relate to how she mentions “firehose feeds.” I’ve got my RSS feeds so full that it’s sort of overwhelming to open my RSS reader and see all the updates come spilling out. Definitely more than I could hope to be caught up on.

I haven’t finished the article, so maybe it’s covered–but I need some way to like only open up my news feeds, or only open up my art feeds.

I guess I could pause them all, then selectively sync different folders or tags…

Good to hear about RSS, I’ve been using it since 2006 or thereabout as a landing page to put together my news sources and basic info I want every day (and also to follow my online comics). I was really annoyed when Netvibes closed recently, as contrary to what is there here I don’t find migrating from a reader to another trivial; finding one that is actually privacy oriented and not asking you to pay for basic functionalities is tricky, and then most of them don’t support migration so you have to rebuild your index. And then I saw over the years a reduction of the proportion of websites that support RSS; now I feel that most don’t, at least the one I follow. And then there is the volume - as RSS push you all content from a publisher, anything that is a bit verbose (think hackernews or slashdot) will cause a deluge. Not mentioning republishing of articles which will cause one you’ve seen already being pushed again in your feed (usual with mainstream newspapers). All in all not an excellent solution I am afraid, but it’s better than the alternatives.

I’ll do another post tomorrow from my laptop with the workarounds I found to blunt the edges of some of these.

using thunderbird just for RSS now and seems to be working ok, don’t have to supply an e-mail or anything. My only issue is that some sources will only send the headline of an article to the RSS feed, rather than the whole body.