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?

  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    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

  • peastea@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • impiri@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • ragica@lemmy.ml
    1·
    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