RSS Reader

Why would I need something else than RSS ?

Once upon a time, there was a very decentralized Web where each website proposed to subscribe to newsletters or follow their RSS feed to have the last news. We had RSS readers (on web version or on desktop, for instance I was using Opera’s RSS feed reader) which were regularly pooling the feeds and update the new articles. Then, we could sort the feeds and assign them categories and read it according to our time and mood.

September 13, 2022 - 3 minutes read time

From TT-RSS to FreshRSS

One of the first things I had self-hosted was a RSS Feeds subscriber and reader. More than a decade ago, I was an Opera user, an Internet suite that integrated a RSS reader. When Opera 12 died, I had to find something else. This something else was Tiny Tiny RSS, a PHP-based RSS Feeds subscriber and reader service that you can self host. I’ve heard about FreshRSS on past January, following some toots telling about it on Fosstodon.

March 13, 2022 - 4 minutes read time