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I've been running this app for a few months, where I collect left and green news from various magazines, journals, parties, ngos, movements etc. I hope you find it useful. I would appreciate feedback on it too

  • nematoad [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    What RSS software do people use? I've never really gotten into it. Any open-source readers that are highly recommended?

    • lilychan [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Emacs users tend to enjoy elfeed. TUI/CLI users tend to enjoy newsboat. Browser users tend to enjoy Tiny Tiny RSS or Miniflux.

    • kota [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Gonna necro-post to mention readrops. It's a really nice android rss app. It's on fdroid and so forth and looks and works really well.

    • culdrought [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I use FreshRSS. It's very easy to set up and I like the interface. TinyTinyRSS arguably has more functionality (being able to pull full text articles for example), but I don't like the interface as much and also the dev is a chud.

      • thomasdankara [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You aren't able to run it locally right? I'm not sure yet if I want to be running a web server on my homelab

        • culdrought [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Unfortunately not. For something local I'd suggest Feedbro (extension for Firefox and Chrome).

    • shyamalamadingdong [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I use newsboat, it is dope. QuiteRSS, Liferea, Newsflow etc are all decent too. On Android, Flym is great.

      I'm not comfortable using something like inoreader/feedly simply because I don't want data aggregators to have a record of my interests and activity. So local clients like the ones I mentioned, or self-hosting TTRSS or Miniflux if you have the infrastructure and inclination is the way to go.

    • metaparty [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      for the record, I don't have a feed yet, but have thought of adding one too eventually

      • metaparty [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I added these now: https://www.cmpfr.xyz/latest.atom?locale=en | https://www.cmpfr.xyz/top.atom?locale=en

  • KiaKaha [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Cool. What’s the app? I thought RSS was dead.

    • metaparty [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      With the app I mean the website. I didn't know RSS was still so widely available before I started, but actually I think it's a very cool thing

  • lilychan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Do you have a list of the feed links? I can't seem to find them on the page…

  • garbology [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Is there a list of the publications/organizations and their RSS feeds somewhere on the site? I poked around but maybe I missed it

    • metaparty [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I added these now: https://www.cmpfr.xyz/latest.atom?locale=en | https://www.cmpfr.xyz/top.atom?locale=en

  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Damn there are some nice articles here, I look forward to checking it regularly.

    Thank you for sharing

  • sunlit_uplands [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Seems great, just looking now.Just what I needed, more to read :)

    Are you going to post the algorithm?

    • metaparty [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      There's no algorithm in the AI sense. What it does is it collects the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds from each source and presents them in the long list. Logged in users can vote on articles, which then populate the 'top' page. The algorithm on the 'top' page is a ranking based on votes and the age of an article.