Like many, I prefer subscribing to RSS feeds instead of being force-fed by an algorithm. However, sometimes I wish I could comment and/or chat with others about the contents of specific articles in the feed.

I know it's possible to post a link to the article in a link aggregator like Lemmy and have a discussion, but that takes effort to post links and not every article in a feed would be submitted. It also doesn't curate the discussion to only the feeds a user is interested in.

So, my idea is that in a feed, tapping/clicking on the article would show comments people have left and allow the reader to make their own comments/replies. The comments could also be available in a read-only state via api or their own RSS feed, so authors could easily embed them.

I did a little searching and couldn't find anything like this. If this seems useful to anybody else, I think I'd like to write it. So... thoughts?

Handy News Reader

free and open-source (FOSS), so you can snag it from F-Droid . It’s loaded with many features

Features:

-full articles at hand

-convenient reading: switching articles by volume buttons or swipe, Tap Zones, remembering the position of reading per article,

-important articles' notification: You will no longer miss anything

-"Read It Later": You can quickly flick through articles

-"Remove When Finished" - once You've finished such an article - it may be automatically removed from the 'Favorites' (='Read It Later') set,

-ready to go off-line

-save the bandwidth: go on-line only for new articles

-gesture-friendly

-the left edge of the screen to adjust text brightness,

-user-friendly: care about Your eyes with a dark theme, adjust text size, color

-neat ideas: non-hyperlinked article headers

-scrolling article pages by 90% of their height can make reading less confusing

-customizable: from Tap Zones' size to hyperlinks' color and underlining & a bunch o

Right now I use Feeder, but I want to add larger feeds like HackerNews or r/comics and if I do that then my feed gets overwhelmed with those much more frequently updated feeds.

I'd love an (Android) app with the ability to let the other feeds intermingle near the top of the sort with the larger feeds

Kind of a "sort my chronological per feed"

Can any one please help me here.

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Started with RSS recently, and I've been using Feeder, but UI wasn't vibing with me so I wanted to explore other options

One that stood out was Tiny Tiny RSS, but I noticed that it's self-hosted

Which made me wonder, what are the other feed apps doing? I assumed no back end would be necessary since I can provide the link to the RSS XML

So what kinds of things are the servers doing?

Or am I misinformed and Tiny Tiny RSS is self-hosted because it is doing something beyond the usual feed readers

Current YouTube RSS Feeds leave much to be desired, so we're improving them

Feels like there’s more and more podcasts going on YouTube and some have chapters only there, not in their actual podcast feeds. I made a tiny iOS App that works similar to Castro, only for YouTube videos.

It's free and open source. I'm happy to get any feedback or to hear from people who find it as useful as I do.

You can get it here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6477287463

Features

• Queue & Inbox triaging (can be custom per channel)
• Custom playback speed per channel
• (pre-select) chapters
• Picture-in-Picture & background audio
• & more

It’s not perfect and definitely not a full podcast player replacement, but it could be useful as an add on in some cases. At the very least people who enjoy Castro might find it useful to have something similar for YouTube videos.

The Vivaldi web browser adds a new level of customization to its RSS feed subscription feature

So, I'm tentative to announce this project, as the server it's running on is a bit of a potato which will probably fall over pretty quick if it gains any traction, but...

Introducing RSS Temple!

If you're interested in a free RSS reader which attempts to mimic some of the more useful features of the big players (Feedly and Google Reader, in particular), including full-text search, hotkey navigation, small footprint interface, and sharing to both Lemmy and Mastodon (among others), I would love if you gave RSS Temple a try.

I've been working on this project for ~7 years now, and I alone cannot find any more bugs or usability issues, so I hope it's ready for the community to see. Any feedback is appreciated!

The code is open at:

https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple (server, Python)

https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple_ui (landing page and web app, Angular and EleventyJS)

https://github.com/murrple-1/ansible-collection-rss-temp

I am familiar with RSS Bridge, but I recently came across RSSHub, and I'm not sure exactly what it does differently than RSS Bridge. Would someone be able to compare the two, or explain why you would use one over the other?

Is there any universal or newsboat specific way to do this? The RSS feed itself doesn't even hint at it being a short, so probably not.

I'm looking for an RSS reader that would be able to have its data synchronised across devices using Syncthing (it just should store its data locally in a certain folder that looks the same on all devices).

Any suggestions?

Hi I'm not a fan of social media and I left TW recently because I realized I spent too much time in there doomscroling and getting angry. That's how I found Lemmy

but there are still a few IG and TW accounts that I would like to keep tabs on (local news, content creators, stuff like that) Is there a way to maybe put all that in a single app in a controlled feed? I though maybe RSS (Been using Feeder recently, still building my sources but I like it) could be an answer but I haven't found a tool that's free and still working (I know it's the opposite of their business model)

My hopes are not high, but thanks im advance for any answer

The third party applications section of FreshRSS's site lists several apps that haven't been updated in years or have ads, unfortunately. https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/blob/edge/README.md#apis--native-apps

Are there any good, FOSS Android apps that work with FreshRSS? Ideally including bookmarks, labels, and syncing read articles. Or at least one that is "good enough" for your use? The site is awesome on mobile, however I do not get notifications on new articles in a category.

A video from JuanBagnell - SomeGadgetGuy

I recently made a post looking for an RSS feeder with some sort of intelligent content surfacing system, and have just stumbled upon exactly that. All analysis is local and so far seems to be quite good.

Github: https://gitlab.com/ondrejfoltyn/nunti
FDroid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nunti/

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

EDIT: Actually just stumbled on one for mobile. Check out Nunti on android (https://gitlab.com/ondrejfoltyn/nunti)