Rss

RSS feeds never went away. Most blogs, news sites, forums, and even a lot of YouTube channels and subreddits still publish one, whether or not they advertise it on the page. What disappeared was the easy on-ramp, Google Reader shut down over a decade ago and nothing free and centralized ever fully replaced it as the default. The gap got filled by a handful of paid hosted services (Feedly, Inoreader) and by self-hosting, and for a homelab operator the self-hosted path has a real advantage beyond just avoiding a subscription: your reading list, read/unread state, and starred articles stay on hardware you control, not in a third party’s analytics pipeline. FreshRSS, Miniflux, and Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS) are the three tools that consistently come up, and they land in genuinely different places on the simplicity-versus-features spectrum. ...