• Nusm@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    First let me say - SCREW YOU GOOGLE FOR SHUTTING DOWN GOOGLE READER. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE AND I WILL NEVER FORGET.

    I moved over to NewsBlur for my aggregator, and I’ve been really happy with it. It’s a small team, and the dev is very responsive to issues and suggestions. Reading articles online is quick because it uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts that GReader used.

    On my iPhone I rotate between Fiery Feeds, Unread, and NewsBlur’s app to read my articles on mobile.

    • dan@upvote.au
      2·
      1 year ago

      Individual sites have RSS feeds, which are essentially just XML files that contain a list of all the articles on the site.

      You run software that’s referred to as a feed reader, which contains a list of all the RSS URLs you want to subscribe to. It either periodically checks to see if there’s updates to the RSS files, or gets notified of updates via WebSub.

        • dan@upvote.au
          1·
          1 year ago

          Definitely :)

          It used to be the main way people followed their favourite blogs. Google had a great product called “Google Reader” for RSS, and people were pretty upset when it was shut down.

          Before Google Reader, it was pretty common for email clients to support RSS too.

  • krash@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I use fresh rss since its rather easy to selfhost, and read you on my android. Unfortunately read you doesn’t play well with fresh rss yet.

  • Alex@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I pay for access to Newsblur which is an RSS aggregator with open source mobile apps. For stuff like bug feeds and tracking wiki updates on projects I use elfeed within Emacs.

  • Alien Surfer@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I still use gReader. It’s hard to find but I still keep a copy of the pro version apk (version 4.3.1_pro_beta) for Android. It just works really well and has the best UI that works the way I like it on both my phone and tablet. The latest version (which is not the one I have) was last updated April 2021. The developer was ‘noinnion’.

  • ZelKami@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use Pluma on Android since it’s the only one on Android I’ve found thatvhas an option to filter out articles by keywords

  • ksp@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use an instance of FreshRSS (but I plan on hosting my own) and I use NetNewsWire to access it on iOS

  • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    My question would be: What do you read on a RSS feed, I had one when I was trying to find a different way to read the news, but it didn’t hold because I found news too repetitive and only talking about scary things that rarely actually impacted me, so I’d be curious to know what people use them for