Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I’ve always felt they’d be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

EDIT: Actually just stumbled on one for mobile. Check out Nunti on android (https://gitlab.com/ondrejfoltyn/nunti)

  • mark@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Yeah. I’ve found that really dense feeds are usually due to them covering too many topics. So narrowing down the feeds to more granular levels of content tends to cut down on the noise and makes my feeds more readable again.

    For example, instead of having a feed for CNN’s entire home page, narrowing it down to their AI Technology feed or something more specific to what I’m interested in has made my feeds a lot more manageable. openrss.org provides really granular feeds for the news sites I like and helps with it.

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      9 months ago

      More granular subcategories are absolutely not an answer to this problem that I’m satisfied with. I don’t mind having a handful of timelines to check but if I’m getting into double digits there’s a problem.