RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

    • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      One question. Why do we need a web app for something that was designed to work locally?

        • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Do you need that? You only need to sync the feed. There are formats like OPML for that. At worst you need a file sync tool like syncthing. The feed contents seen by the readers are all the same.

          I’m yet to see a good reason why feed readers need to be web apps. This is worse than the case of git - a decentralized tool is taken and made centralized.

          • DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca
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            8 months ago

            Agreed. The syncing can be managed other ways. The only thing I’m left with is using on a work computer for some reason, where one’s own devices aren’t available/permitted? But that’s probably not a common usage case.

    • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Anyone interested can find (usually free) externally hosted freshRss and TinyRss hosts on the chatons website. Select one of those in the “based on” drop down menu.

      I’ve tried both and like neither. As far as I can tell, they only have a small number of apps. And none of them work offline. With a regular RSS reader you can refresh it when you have internet access, then everything is available when you do not. Like an email client or any other such software.

      But it might be suitable to you. So check out the chatons.