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Same, many years now, does the job well, simple web interface without any fuss. Docker (in my case podman, but whatever) version is pretty damn bulletproof, can't remember the last time I needed to do anything to it. Tailscale / Headscale / wireguard will let you use it on your phone's browser if you're keen on that.
I use Thunderbirds built-in RSS reader.
I use NetNewsWire and feeeed. NetNewsWire is a good traditional RSS reader, and feeed for when I want something more akin to a personalized "newspaper" than just a straight feed.
I self-host Miniflux and just access that through a browser/as a PWA. Simple and works well
+1 for miniflux. And I use android Miniflutt
I've been using NewsBlur since I read Cory Doctorow's piece about RSS readers: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
It works fine, and I'm just on the free tier.
On my personal computer I ended up using a terminal RSS reader (Newsboat) because the RSS software I tried before either rendered poorly or slowly and I would always end up reading the article in my browser. At least I can get through the feed fast. It also does podcasts and I set it up to deal with my YouTube subscriptions too.
On my Android phone I use Capy Reader.
There is no syncing between the devices.
Like lots of folks post-Google Reader I tried a number of online and syncable readers, like Feedly. It turns out it isn't a big deal of things aren't synced.
I self-host Miniflux. The web client is very good on both desktop and mobile, but I prefer using it with the lire app on iOS.
NetNewsWire on iPhone. Newsflash on desktop.
For what device? InoReader is nice and probably worth the price but I'm poor so I use NewsFlash on Linux.
Mainly for iPhone/ IOS but if it is possible to have it synch with Windows (PC) that would be a major advantage.
This puts any RSS feed into your Mastodon feed.
Open source?
obviously it's a remote service, so you don't directly control it unless you run it yourself, but the website links to this repo https://github.com/gugray/rss-parrot so the code does seem to be available under a free license (I have not tried to run it myself)
Thanks somehow I missed that
I’ve been using feeder forever, its paid but it syncs between the phone app and browser extension
I use the Smart RSS extension for Firefox. I like FOSS for this because I require next to no features for an RSS aggregator. It's not maintained anymore and I'm sure there's something better out there but I haven't been bothered enough to look.
I ended up using Readkit; started with Reeder, moved to Feedly and then Readkit. I cannot remember the cost but it was a one-off at the time I joined the service. I found it to work well for me.
My favorite is RSSOwl, but I've been using Liferea for a while now.
Miniflux + RSS Guard, Feedly, KDE Akregrator.. Depending on what I'm following.
Freshrss, running alongside my nexcloud provider
Elfeed in Emacs.