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My self hosted FreshRSS instance is better than Google Reader ever was.

Just about every website and service I use has feeds.

People/geeks are rediscovering RSS.

I think this might be the golden age of RSS.



I recently discovered that FreshRSS has a built-in xPath parser/webscrapper[1] so you can actually subscribe to any website, even if it doesn't have an actual feed.

It's not straightforward to use because of the lack of a test/debug interface, but its worth the effort to set it up!

[1]: https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/11_website_scra...


Self-hosted FreshRSS + NetNewsWire on Mac and iOS/iPadOS is my combo of choice, works great. After Reader died I migrated to Feedly for a while, but self-hosting the backend and not having ads injected + being able to debug and properly manage feeds is way nicer.




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