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Gentle, biannual reminder that RSS is great and can be another tool in your toolbox to curate your online experience, improve mental health, and stay informed. It's also a much more accessible way to consume news if you have a client that handles full-text extraction. I've just updated my public list of RSS feeds after going nearly a whole year without doing so: tristanb.me/feeds/. this is a comprehensive list of most of the feeds that I follow, split up by category.

tristanb.meRSS Feeds

@tristan What's your setup for following those now? There are a lot of reader options and I have no idea what's considered good and up-to-date. Do you still sync them on a server?

@simon I self-host miniflux.app/ and use lire on mobile, which has native support for Miniflux out of the box. Lire provides native push notifications and the ability to edit, add, or remove feeds/folders, and the Miniflux web app is an exemplary experience with great keyboard support when on desktop. I haven't changed this setup in years and it just works™️.

miniflux.appMiniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed ReaderMiniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader

@tristan @simon Miniflux is fantastic. I have been running a private instance for years without issues, except when reddit blocks it.

On the Mac, you can use NetNewsWire, which uses the Googld Reader API integration, it works quite well.

Tristan

@erion @simon I didn't realize NetNewsWire could hook into Google Reader compatible things. This is good to know. I've had it installed for years and never really got too deep into using it.

@tristan @simon The only reason why I am aware is because I didn't really want to read via the browser and Miniflux does not provide an aggregated rss feed to subscribe to. I really need to sit down one day and just send them a PR.