I use a combination of google now + hackernews.
google now - I let it do the work and suggest me what to read. hackernews - too much good stuff to miss so i read here as well.
RSS: there's nothing better
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I actually read everything by RSS except HN, since the posts here often get better over time, thanks to comments, so they're less suitable for RSS, in my opinion. By the way, if you follow YouTube channels, not only do they still provide RSS feeds, as you can get a nice OPML file of all the channels you subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)
What are you using to aggregate the feeds?
Self-hosted TinyTinyRSS on a cheap VPS (alongside my email).
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>miss Google Reader Feedly
I use Reeder on my iPad and add RSS feeds individually to the app. There is a section where I can add a Feedly account to the app. Does that provide any advantages over directly adding the RSS feeds?
Syncing: read stuff in bed on your iPad/Reeder, get up, login to www.feedly.com and find your unread list in the same state.
Other than that, feedly offers a few features you might be interested in: search, filters, alerts, highlights, etc.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you using to aggregate the feeds?
Self-hosted TinyTinyRSS on a cheap VPS (alongside my email).
Off-topic: what do you use for self-hosted email? I'm considering abandoning it and going back to gmail/fastmail, for the constant configuration hassle (DKIM/SPF, etc.) causing sent/received emails to be incorrectly marked as spam and/or refused :-/
Any "sane defaults, regular updates, impossible to shoot yourself in the foot" package to recommend?
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#135I really miss Google Reader. Nowadays if I want to follow updates from my friends or events from some organizations, I almost certainly have to like/follow them on FB. But even doing this I cannot be sure that I will get news that I want - because despite I always use "Most Recent" sorting, FB is hiding some content from me. Many times I saw interesting post when accidentally entering FB "Top stories", from let's say…
I've been using https://tt-rss.org/ as a Google Reader replacement for years and highly recommend it. You do have to run it yourself, though.
I was just looking this up as another user recommended it. I found a published docker container:
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#136We launched a very simple RSS to mail product last year [1] and it's uptake has been steadily growing. There's still life in the RSS ecosystem yet!
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#137I see no mention of push notifications as a sort of alternative. Technologically, the polling of RSS feeds to check for new content is a bit wasteful. What I'd like to see is a setup that uses push notifications to gather new content or maybe even a combination, where the push notification tells the RSS reader to grab the new content.
Another interesting fact about RSS is, that it's the main distribution solution for podcasts.
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#138I really want to like RSS but almost every from a commercial outlet serves “stubs” instead of full articles, I.e. to read the full thing you have to click through and land on their website (for ad-serving purposes I imagine) I had found a solution in fulltextrssfeeds.com, but it was slow, cumbersome and didn’t always work. How do you folks solve this?
I don't mind the stubs, since they usually give me enough to know whether or not I want to read the whole article. For most sites that serve stubs, I only want to read a handful of what they publish.
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#139Re: RSS: there's nothing better
#140Google killed the RSS feeds for me. On the flip-side, I am thinking to get back to them sometime soon.
I was kinda worried about RSS "dying" due to google. Before google reader died I had about 140 feeds in my newsblur, right now in my newsblur tab I have 134. I'm not thinking google reader dying impacted the RSS ecosystem very much although there was a very small measurable effect.