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Just earlier this week I went back to rss with my selfhosted aggregator based on FreshRSS docker. What made me go back to rss was partially fueled by the twitte
by gbil 4y ago
Just earlier this week I went back to rss with my selfhosted aggregator based on FreshRSS docker. What made me go back to rss was partially fueled by the twitter situation since I primarily use twitter for updates from news and tech sites. Moreover, I realized that on twitter I get the "list" of news but then I also spend a lot of time browsing the various sites even if there are no new articles and rss would be ideal to get at the same time a list of new articles, go back to read/old ones and expand only what I wanted in the same interface - with some compromises.
FreshRSS looked to be a more up to date solution compared to ttrss that I self hosted in the past with a BIG plus of going beyond what is available in the rss stream, retrieve full articles AND even just parse normal web pages to retrieve articles when rss is not available. For sure I've spent 2-3 hours to setup all these things, but now I have a curated list of rss feeds + parsed normal sites in a page, rarely needing to go outside of that view directly on the relevant sites and accessible from everywhere with proper user/pass support behind a reverse proxy. AND I spend less time just browsing without reason ;)