For a while I tried to keep using RSS. I remember setting up a self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS instance and kept up with that for a bit. At some point I was using Liferea too. Eventually I stopped keeping up with RSS feeds entirely and just relied on social feeds myself.
In recent years I've gotten back into RSS though, and surprisingly most sites support it still!
I had a false start with RSS Guard- a solid piece of software but I move around computers too much for it to be something I stay on top of without too many updates for me to skim through. So I wanted to find a hosted one- I never checked that GitHub page before looking into it but it lists a bunch of hosted RSS platforms it can integrate with. I ended up going with Miniflux and paying for a subscription. It integrated fine with RSS Guard but I wanted something that could work on mobile. I have an iPhone so I found an app that works with RSS- lire- and it's been fantastic. I even bought the desktop version recently too.
One thing that's great about lire is how easy it is to add feeds- it has a built in search for feeds so if it knows of any for what you're looking for you don't even need the website. It supports a bunch of different stuff beyond direct RSS feeds like youtube channels or bluesky accounts that you don't need to have an account to keep up with:
Been keeping up with things for over a year now this way and it's been so much more enjoyable than the social feed style of keeping up with things.
It's a relatively boring software use-case so you probably won't hear too many people using it talk about it much, figured it'd be worth sharing here though.
----
Edited by: Mario, Jan 4th, 2026 @ 11:42 pm
