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
    3·
    1 year ago

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

      • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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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          1 year 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.