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The lack of free/native RSS readers on Android/iPhone and MacOS (Thunderbird only?) is a truly sad state of affairs. I don’t want social, I don’t want online sychronization with whateverNews, I don’t want smart, I don’t want premium - just let me subscribe to the bloody RSS’ URL.

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I quite liked Vienna (http://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss) while I had a Mac. It has options to run both as a standalone application and synced with various online services.

On iOS there's a healthy selection of standalone apps I'd say, most of them offer support to sync with paid or self-hosted online services (If they support the Fever API). My current combination is a self-hosted Miniflux instance and Reeder on iOS and macOS as clients.

I wrote a little bit about it here: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/sad-state-of-rss-on-the-mac/ and there's a good discussion with other readers here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577442)

This describes the web experience for me in general. All of these features sidestep the core functionality. People build these things and seem to ignore typography and clarity. Maybe it's because things like social and "smart" anything increase "engagement" and other such vanity metrics that are used to impress stakeholders, even though they have little to do with what the products should be good at, which is allowing people to read.

I like Reeder[0] and I use it since some time without problems.

[0]http://reederapp.com

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