I like how GF shows me articles (with images) of different websites and topics.

I tried freshrss, and the general RSS workflow, but it’s somehow too frustrating having 20 articles of the same site when scrolling through the feeds and it also looks somehow dull without images.

But maybe it’s just me not using the right tools.

What do you guys use to aggregate news about different topics?

  • tomas@aggregatet.org
    1·
    8 months ago

    Hi, I also use freshhrss. Self hosted, low maintenance.

    No problem with the images and the feed is quite consistent if you just tag and manage subscriptions in an ordered manner.

    I recommended you to organice your feeds being consistent in what do you want to see in the “main stream”.

    P.s. also activate “mark as read” “while scrolling”. If any site dumps a bunch of consecutive articles I just mark that stream as read and move on.

    Good luck!

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    41·
    8 months ago

    Google Reader was the best. Not sure why Google killed it, but it was really good at both content discovery and keeping up with sites you’re interested in. I tried several alternatives but nothing came close, so I gave up and hung out more on forums / link aggregators like slashdot, hacker news, reddit and now lemmy for content discovery. I’m also interested to hear what others use.

    • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      GReader was so good, now it’s just another ghost in Google’s graveyard. :( My guess is that they killed it because it was kinda in the same sphere as Google News.

  • mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.ukEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    I’m on macOS and iOS and love News Explorer. It syncs my reading progress to all other devices and also has a nice reader mode that pulls the article from the website in full. Apart from that it’s pretty bare-bones, but does exactly what I want.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    For RSS I like ReadYou, for feeds I like Mastodon with a variety of interests followed. There are a surprising number of orgs on Mastodon these days.

  • fart_pickle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’ve been using Inoreader for few years and there is no single thing I could complain about. It’s good enough that I’m considering buying a subscription.

  • Clegko@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    It’s not self hosted, but I spent some time curating the news feed on Bing. It works well enough that I felt comfortable switching from Google Feed, and I don’t have to worry about self-hosting random news feeds.

  • metasaval@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    since it sounds like you’re talking android maybe, with the pixel feed on the left of the home screen, I just switched to the neo launcher + neo feed [1] this week and it’s been working great. the launcher is a pretty good open source nova-like launcher on it’s own, but the feed is just an RSS reader that is on the left of the home screen like Google would be. it’s been super nice to have that similar feed but with my chosen data.

    as for images, you should def have some. there are feeds that don’t include it, like techcrunch, but most do. you can try the verge or rockpapershotgun as examples.

    [1] https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Feed

  • bread@feddit.nlEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    I use FreshRSS in combination with FiveFilters and RSS-Bridge to get full articles, instead of just snippets, and filter out content I already know I have no interest in.