I’m personally using NewsFlash at the moment, and it’s perfectly fine, but its borders are completely incongruous with my theme, I assume they’re based around Gnome and I’m on Plasma, so I’m looking for a new one and was wondering what people here use?

On top of one for Linux, I’d be curious on if any of you have recommendations for Android or iOS, as only being able to check the news on my pc has led to me relying on RSS a bit less than I’d like.

  • SemEnglish
    200·
    9 months ago

    emacs + elfeed

    Reasons:

    1. I’m using emacs for almost everything, so it it is a quite obvious choice
    2. Links to rss/atom are stored in a plain human readable org-mode file that you can edit manually or use VCS on top
    3. It works fine from both terminal and gui
    4. It is a fully OSS solution under The Unlicense
    • VerseAndVermin
      80·
      9 months ago

      I didn’t know Thunderbird did this. I was trying to think why people would use it who have all their email in one web page already. I use Proton and it seemed unnecessary and yet everyone on Linux seems to use it. I love a good RSS reader though!

      • TurboWafflz
        80·
        9 months ago

        It’s much less annoying than always leaving a web browser open especially if you have multiple accounts from different providers

      • lea
        20·
        9 months ago9 months ago

        I was trying to think why people would use it who have all their email in one web page already.

        I would prefer a web client (since emails are already interlinked with the web so a tab for it is less annoying to me) but none of the options satisfied me so I just landed there. You either use a provider with already good web mail (gmail, proton, …) or you end up with Thunderbird.

        But maybe I’ve missed an option. The best one I’ve had was Nextcloud Mail but it was really slow to load and search.

      • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago9 months ago

        I personally prefer native email clients to web (no browser overhead, no ads, no sweet-lord-Yahoo-why-is-that-feature-there, simple no-nonsense layout, plus several features web clients don’t have like viewing message headers (which often reveal some fairly interesting information about the various servers the email passed through on its way to your inbox) and, of course, the ability to read email while offline)

    • CatLikeLemmingOPEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      Oh, I did not even know it supported RSS/Atom, that’s lovely! I think I’ll move to that then, thank you :D

      Newsboat, which others recommended, also seems interesting, but I personally appreciate images, so that one is sadly a no-go for me, even if being able to ssh into a home server to check up on news, instead of having to sync the feeds across multiple devices, would be absolutely lovely.

  • Quazatron
    130·
    9 months ago

    I mostly use Thunderbird. Lately I’ve been using Newsflash.

    • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      Second this. At this point I treat Thunderbird as an RSS reader that also fetches my email.

  • BlanK0
    121·
    9 months ago

    I don’t personally use that much RSS in my computer (more on the phone) but I do know of a terminal RSS reader called newsboat.

    In terms of android, I use feeder, its available on fdroid and you can also install it via obtainium

    • Interstellar_1
      20·
      9 months ago

      I don’t like how official apps look with a different plasma theme sometimes

  • Ajay K
    90·
    9 months ago9 months ago

    For android I highly recommend ReadYou. Its immaculate!

    PS: Use Obtainium to install and update it.

    • krash
      10·
      9 months ago9 months ago

      Ooo, fever API is now finally supported!

      Edit: feverAPI is also deprecated, I guess I’ll just use the web version of my rss-app on mobile instead

    • Mereo
      30·
      9 months ago

      I currently use Akregator. Which one do you prefer?

      • intelisense
        30·
        9 months ago

        I prefer the non nonsense interface of RSS Guard, but then I’m reading CVE notices, so I need it simple and organised.

      • CocoLopez
        10·
        9 months ago

        Still can’t decide which one to uninstall. I think akregator looks better but RSS Guard seems to have a lot of development. I’ll keep running both.

  • www-gem
    50·
    9 months ago

    If you’re looking for something minimal but highly customizable I’d recommend newsboat. For Android I use feedr.

    • furzegulo1312
      20·
      9 months ago

      i love newsboat and it’s always open on my yakuake!

  • nezach
    50·
    9 months ago

    I self-host FreshRSS as a container with podman behind Traefik on a raspberry pi 5 and use the web interface on desktop and FeedMe on android. Pretty happy with the setup.

  • SavvyWolfEnglish
    50·
    9 months ago

    I use Feedly (a website that fills the same role as Google Reader) but I’m not that happy with it nowadays since they seem to be pushing for AI nonsense. Any of you self-hostey people got any suggestions for hosted RSS readers, ideally ones with NixOS modules?

    • Rimu
      60·
      9 months ago

      I’ve been enjoying FreshRSS for the last couple of years.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPresEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      I have a feedly account but don’t use their apps or site. I’ve struggled to find a good Android client but Newsify on iOS is great. (I have Android and iOS devices and, at the very least, VMs of desktop OSes for developer reasons. So, Feedly syncing everything is my use case. MacOS, Linux, and iOS have Reeder or Newsflash. I barely use Windows except for building and testing and haven’t tried finding on there but I’d be curious if anyone knows of one.)

      • WeAreAllOneEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        Feed Me for Android. It’s quite good actually!

  • Dariusmiles2123
    40·
    9 months ago9 months ago

    On iOs Netnewswire is really great.

    I’m also using a firefox extension for my RSS feed (feedbro) on Fedora.

  • rizoid
    40·
    9 months ago

    I use fluent reader on all of my devices connected to my freshrss server back home.