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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too (joeyehand.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Blogger discovers this cool thing called "RSS".

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I've been interested in trying out RSS again but I don't want to self-host. Can anyone recommend a RSS client (hosted, local, or whatever) that they like?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It can be as simple as just putting an app on your phone. I use feeder which is fine. Pretty bare bones, but in that way it's easy to learn and use.

    I've also been meaning to try out an app called Nunti, which I heard about a while ago from this Lemmy post. It claims to be an RSS reader with the added benefit of an (open source and fully local) algorithm to provide some light curation of your feed. It looks interesting, but I haven't actually tried it out yet because I'm still deciding whether I want any algorithm curating my feed, even one as transparent as Nunti's. It's also only available through F-Droid right now, which is a bit of a barrier to entry.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If it's open source, you could perhaps tinker with the algorithm. My main desires for rss feeds are:

    • a way to filter out fluff affiliate link articles (e.g., 8 best gadgets on sale for prime day)
    • a way to cluster articles on the same topic (i don't really need to read 5 articles about the same news item)

    Any clue if nunti could do that?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man, I feel you on the affiliate link fluff. I actually ended up unsubscribing from the Popular Mechanics and Popular Science feeds because the signal to noise ratio was so bad.

    The creator of Nunti provided a very good primer on the algorithm design here. Basically, you indicate to the app whether you like or dislike an article and then it does some keyword extraction in the background and tries to show you similar articles in the future. I suppose you might be able to dislike a bunch of the fluff and hope the filter picks up on it, but it isn't really designed to support the kind of rules that would completely purge a certain type of content from your feed.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Newsblur can do the first kind of filtering. You select "best gadgets" in the title, and all posts on that feed with that phrase in the title will be hidden from then on.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I used Feedly since Google Reader was shut down. Then 1.5 years ago, as Feedly was getting more paywalls and AI-crap, I switched to Newsblur, and have been a happy user ever since. I love its Intelligence Trainer that lets me hide posts with certain tags/authors/keywords.

    Unlimited hosted-by-them Newsblur costs 36 USD / year. It has a FLOSS version and a more limited free hosted-by-them version, but the 2.5 GBP / month was worth the QoL increase for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    there are some publically available FreshRSS instances that you can make an account with, I personally use hostux. you can access it with the browser and any apps that support FreshRSS (in my case, Read You or Capy Reader on Android, and sometimes RSS Guard on desktop).

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