RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

  • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    Do you need that? You only need to sync the feed. There are formats like OPML for that. At worst you need a file sync tool like syncthing. The feed contents seen by the readers are all the same.

    I’m yet to see a good reason why feed readers need to be web apps. This is worse than the case of git - a decentralized tool is taken and made centralized.

    • DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Agreed. The syncing can be managed other ways. The only thing I’m left with is using on a work computer for some reason, where one’s own devices aren’t available/permitted? But that’s probably not a common usage case.

    • kfet@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      When you have 100+ feeds you really want to avoid reading twice the same entry. It’s the single most important feature in an RSS reader for me.

    • ginerel@kbin.socialOP
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      11 months ago

      So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn’t it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?