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Marko Jahnke<p>Endlich habe ich eine <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a>-<a href="https://bonn.social/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a>-<a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Newsreader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newsreader</span></a>-App mit Anbindung an <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/FreshRSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreshRSS</span></a> gefunden, die meinen Anforderungen gerecht werden könnte.</p><p>Es waren viele Kleinigkeiten (Ansicht, Layout, Sortierung, Bedienung usw.), die mich bei mindestens 15 getesteten Apps über die Jahre gestört hatten. Bisher war ich nur mit <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/FeedMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeedMe</span></a> zufrieden, aber das stammt aus dem PlayStore.</p><p>Die neue Version von <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/FeedFlow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeedFlow</span></a> ist aber ein heißer Kandidat für einen Nachfolger.</p><p><a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.prof18.feedflow/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">f-droid.org/en/packages/com.pr</span><span class="invisible">of18.feedflow/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@feedflowapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>feedflowapp</span></a></span></p>
Mike Stone<p>The more I play with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreshRSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreshRSS</span></a> the better it gets. User queries are saving me so much time it's hard to quantify. For example, if I want to search a particular category for a particular phrase, easy as pie. I can search my Technology category for Zorin Linux. If there's something I don't want to spend time on, that's easy too. I use Android, so I can create a query for iOS and just mark everything read that it finds. Like a topic but not an author or site? You can filter on that too. Love it.</p>
Lime Bar<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreshRSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreshRSS</span></a> has a number of hosts listed which claim free signup. But so far I can't find one that will actually respond. </p><p><a href="https://freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freshrss.org/cloud-providers.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a></p><p>I'd like to get an account somewhere where I can setup a handful of web site scrapers for local business sites that have no RSS so I can aggregate those into a feed I can bring into fedi using birb for my and other locals' use. </p><p>Anyone have a server and willing to give me a try?</p>
Mike Stone<p>I've recently replaced Feedly with a self hosted <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreshRSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreshRSS</span></a>. It's been great! My biggest ask at this point is for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FeedMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeedMe</span></a> (the app I'm using on my phone) to have an easy way to move to the next feed when you hit the bottom of the one you're on. Like the "Pull down to Refresh", I'd love to have a "Pull up for next feed" option.</p>
Trevor Burrows<p>Just realized <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Readrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Readrops</span></a>, the android app i use to read feeds via <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FreshRSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreshRSS</span></a>, has stopped showing items I've marked as Favorites. Also having trouble marking favorites.</p><p>FreshRSS is otherwise working ok via the web portal. </p><p>If anyone sees this and is also having trouble, let me know! Using Readrops on <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a></p>
iamcord<p>Die letzten Tage meinen <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/feedreader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feedreader</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/freshrss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freshrss</span></a> mal wieder sehr genossen.<br>Über viele neue Blogs gestolpert und <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> weder vermisst noch geöffnet.</p><p>Wie cool ist es, mastodon-hashtags als feed zu abonnieren?<br>Alleine die beiden tags <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> und <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/neovim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neovim</span></a> haben mich stundenlang gefesselt. Da stößt man dann auf Blogs, in denen Leute schreiben, wofür sie vim verwenden, welche Tools sie sonst noch verwenden und welche Blogs sie abonniert haben.<br>So spannend...</p>
flumen_calculi<p>Bisher nutze ich ReadKit unter macOS und iOS als Frontend für FreshRSS und Wallabag. Wallabag fällt nun bei mir weg und mobil lese ich keine RSS-Feeds mehr.<br>Das schafft Raum für einen neue Feedreader-App auf den Macs. Mag jemand eine empfehlen?<br>Wichtig: Sync mit FreshRSS.</p><p><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/boost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boost</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/freshrss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freshrss</span></a></p>

I need assistance to get elfeed working with freshRSS. Going in circles at this point.

I'm running freshRSS inside Container Manager in Synology (Docker), and its up and running. I am able to log into FreshRSS, and I turned on API access (see image with url).

However when I run elfeed (see configuratins image) elfeed log says authentication error.

the password is the API password, not my user password for fresh rss, which is what I need, right?

**Setting up a RSS reading gig – selfhosted server & client**

(link to blog)

I prefer reading news and blogs via RSS.

Until recently I used 2 apps for that: Feeder on Android and Thunderbird on Linux.

I wanted to have a central place that stores and synchronizes my RSS feeds.

Server

Mastodon friends suggested me (of course they did) self-hosting FreshRSS or Tiny Tiny RSS server.

So I created a new VM (32G disk, 4G RAM) on my Proxmox server, installed Debian 12 and then Yunohost. It sounds easy, but it took me several hours. In brief: Installing Debian was easy (for the first time), but I struggled with setting up networking (static IP). Installing Yuno was also easy, but I failed with pointing it to the right domain. Firstly I pointed it to my TLD (Top Level Domain) which was wrong, because I already have some other services using my TLD. There are some CLI tools in Yuno that allow changing its primary domain to subdomain (yunohost tools maindomain -n yuno.mydomain.info). Then I updated my DNS records for my yuno subdomain to point to my router’s IP. Then I created a new config file on my nginx reverse proxy to redirect requests to yuno server. Then I created Letsencrypt certificate for the new subdomain.

After that, installing FreshRSS was easy: I just searched for it in Yuno ‘play store’ and clicked install. I could choose between installing it under sub-subdomain or /rss folder. I’ve chosen the latter. So my FreshRSS is now accesible via yuno.mydomain.info/rss. Here’s the architecture sketch:

I added my RSS feeds to in and created some categories.

When I tried to access it via FeedMe (Android), it wouldn’t connect. Finally I found I have to set API password in FreshRSS for my user. It wasn’t intuitive to find out where to set the password. It’s in the Settings/Profile/External access via API:

Clients

Then I installed 2 clients: NewsFlash (Linux) and FeedMe (Android). I also installed some other client(forgot the name), but it wouldn’t connect.

Newsflash (Linux)

It works ok, but it cuts off the bottom few lines of each post.

I temporarily solved this issue accidentally by reducing line height to from 1.8 to 1.2, but the issue returned shortly after.

Feedme (Android)

It also works ok, but it has some issues with synchronization of one feed. It wouldn’t sync to FreshRSS. Then I remove it and add it again and it worked.

TL;DR

I can summarize the experience reading news via RSS with two words: clean and without distractions. Self-hosted RSS aggregator allows me better organize my RSS feeds.

I understand everybody who consumes news via FB, news webpages riddled with popups, tracking etc. because setting up and hosting RSS server-client reading gig is far from easy.

An one last thing about RSS feeds that redirect you to the web page: I’m unsubscribing immediately.

And thank you for all who provide full-text RSS feeds: 🤟

https://blog.rozman.info/setting-up-a-rss-reading-gig-selfhosted-server-client/

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To continue: I am also running a #wallabag server which I use to store bookmarks and interesting reading material for myself. And while working in public on a social platform, my partner recommended that I use my wallabag favorites to add to our informational feed. And the process for outputting #RSS from wallabag is very easy: I just had to generate a token for that, and then I plugged in the output RSS into our #FreshRSS backend. #server #asca

Latest addition to my #TrueNAS box: #freshRSS

It took a little fiddling; I had to create and specify directories for data, database, and extensions prior to installation, but then it worked properly. Going through my preferred news sources and seeing how much I can get out of my email inbox and into my web-based #RSS reader instead.

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www.freshrss.orgFreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregatorFreshRSS is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.