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I would like to start using RSS feeds but every client I've searched up has a subscription method of payment. Are there any RSS clients that don't do this?

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I use feeder (and apparently there's more than one rss app called feeder), and it's FOSS. I like it a lot. The one feature it doesn't have is any filtering. I wish I could filter some feeds. My local news seems to be like 50% sports, and a lot of sites these days have half of the "articles" they put out just containing a list of Amazon affiliate links. It also doesn't do audio of video, but I don't use it for that

[–] ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which platform? I use NetNewsWire on iOS.

That’s what I use, too. I am having a hard time finding good US/world news feeds though, the basics like NBC, CBS, etc. I’ve found some newspapers like WaPo, AP, NYT, etc, but some of the others like seriously haven’t updated their RSS pages since 2013 and they don’t really work anymore.

[–] haukesomm@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing, I didn't know that one!

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Thunderbird has RSS feature AFAIK. KDE's KMail as well.

[–] peastea@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I am using Feeder by NoNonsenseApps on Android. Open source and no login required (or even possible).

[–] urda@lebowski.social 4 points 1 year ago

NetNewsWire has done me well on all my Apple things:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1480640210

[–] impiri@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Reeder for Apple platforms is pay-once and lets you sync using your iCloud account

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feedly has an ad-sipported option.

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reason I'm asking is I'm trying to be more aware of supporting that type of stuff online. I don't want to give money to any companies that put features behind behind ads or subscriptions. The end result will always be squeezing the consumer. So I'd like to avoid it if possible

Ideally for me I'd like to have a one time payment or free with donation option. But subscriptions, even with free tier just contributes to the shit net

[–] Newby@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Not all subscriptions are bad though. Some features genuinely have a cost behind them. Inoreader has a feature that lets me create feeds for websites that don’t have an rss feed. To me, that’s worth the price.

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

If you're on Android, you can look on F-Droid. If you're on Linux, you can look on Flathub, if your DE doesn't already include one by default. Thunderbird also has RSS support to my knowledge.

[–] fcuks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

omnivore.app is wicked

[–] variants@possumpat.io 2 points 1 year ago

I use freshrss with fivefilters full text rss add on but this is self hosted

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can self host with nextcloud. There are also client specific apps as well.

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been using free tier Feedly for many years now. It's "good enough". Before that I used Akgregator, which did a pretty decent job for a local app.

Other odd RSS adventures: I played with self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS for a while, and it is actually pretty awesome. It's automatic filtering and tagging capabilities were amazing. But I got tired of maintaining it. I toyed with NetVibes ages ago -- it is a "dashboard" oriented web site, with RSS support. It worked pretty well actually, but the UI is ... unusual. It used to be free. Maybe still is. I don't know. I found myself using the cleaner and simpler "good enough" Feedly more.

It should be pretty easy to move your RSS feed collection between apps/services as most of them support OPML format import/export. So just go ahead and try stuff and see what you like. (Just check first that it supports OPML import/export.)

You might be interested in this somewhat similar recent thread: lemmy.ml/post/7624818