Ask HN: How do you use RSS?

1 point·mastrsushi··7 comments

I find Feedly and all those apps too bloated. Is there just a minimal plaintext site (in an HN style) where I can get links to my subscriptions in a list?

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You may want to look at Miniflux[0] to see if that fits your needs. There's a paid hosting option, but it's also straightforward to deploy on a VPS or your localhost.

Alternatively, you could also look at having yet another app like Reeder[1] that syncs to Feedly, FreshRSS, Miniflux, etc. while helping to clean up the browsing and reading experience.

[0] https://miniflux.app/ [1] https://www.reederapp.com/

If you use Emacs you can access RSS feeds via Gnus: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusRss

sfeed command line https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html

it can output to gopher, twtxt, mbox and html. gemini export would be nice so I can do everything in gemini. you can't really get more minimal

I didn't know about twtxt, it's awesome.

Can Sfeed run entirely in a browser? I should of said my goal is to be able to run this on my iPhone without an app. I was thinking of using GitHub pages as a host.

If you can somehow run it through github actions and output to styled html see: https://codemadness.org/downloads/sfeed/html/feeds.html not sure if it would fit on the screen.

alternatively you could export to gopher put he file/files on a gopher server and read in the gopher client app on ios https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gopher-client/id1235310088

I use/like Inoreader (Android)

Look into Open-source ones.

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