FreshRSS
A self-hosted RSS reader that runs on a Raspberry Pi.
Instead of Feedly, Google News
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When Google announced in March 2013 that it would shut Reader down on 1 July, a lot of people who read the web through feeds suddenly had to find somewhere new for their subscriptions, and plenty of them said so loudly. FreshRSS is a feed reader you run yourself, on a home server, a cheap host or a service like PikaPods, and when the machine is yours the decision to switch it off is too. It is light enough for a Raspberry Pi, supports several users, exports your subscriptions as standard OPML and has an API that mobile reader apps can use, and the community that runs it puts out a release every couple of months.
What you get is the old open web working the way it was meant to, with no tracking and no ranking, and FreshRSS scores a 5 on footprint, lock-in, power and longevity and a 4 on Delivery.
The catch is that somebody has to host it. That puts it out of reach for people who do not want to run a server, and the lowest score, a 3 for self-direction, sits beside that catch.
Once someone has set it up, the day-to-day is a list of unread items from the sites you chose, readable in a browser or on a phone through whichever reader app you like. A friend who runs a server, or a hosted plan, gets you there without doing the hosting yourself.
- A feed reader you host yourself, light enough for a Raspberry Pi
- Supports several users and exports standard OPML
- Mobile reader apps connect through its API
What stands out
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For comparison, we also reviewed Google News (15/30) as a benchmark.
