You cover all the good ones. I love FreshRSS and have been self-hosting it for a few years; Best decision I've made in tech. Cheers from your neighbor in Southeast, Michigan 😀
Thank you I really needed this. I've wanted to get into RSS feeds for years but could never break into them. I needed this though because of everything you said. I read a lot all day and I sift through a lot of distractions to do it. I request more videos like this. I could always use another suggestion for a docker container!
@@jardelainen8278 What does one thing has to do with the other? Why would you need to be into RSS in order to run a docker service on a selfhosted server? I'm a sysadmin with 30+ years experience, I still trying to find out what is so great about RSS. I know what it is, I just don't see the big advantage over reading the posts directly at the source. You need to go there anyway in order to reply. But perhaps RSS is only meant for consumers, not for producers or participants?
@@philconners8871rss allows you to follow many sources all in a single centralized location, your reader. It's like the original social media news feed, but better because the "algorithm" is under your control.
Have you tried Full Text RSS? It's a great way of getting the full article instead of just a snippet in the RSS feed. I use it in combination with FreshRSS.
Hey Tom thanks for mentioning Hollywood in the Background! I’ve been waiting for an answer to this :) thanks for everything you do :) specifically you are the reason I started working in IT
Not sure if you left this in deliberately, but I thought I'd mention it as this is technically a leak of private information. At 8:40, in the bottom left is the private RSS link for your Reddit feed visible.
I use Tiny Tiny RSS instead, the ui is more like i remember it from the popular but gone google reader. To get feeds from sites without RSS i use RSS-Bridge. Man, i use an RSS reader basically daily for the last ~15 years, this tech is old and underrated, but still so simple and useful.
Dang this looks really nice, I tried setting up a monitoRSS discord bot a little while ago and did get it working, but it was a huge pain in the neck and ended up breaking itself after less than a month.
now that reddit's future is questionable, I've started touching on the idea of RSS. I have FreshRSS installed on unraid and im going down this rabbit hole. Are there any freshrss extensions that are must haves?
Could you do a video on MiniFlux? From posts on the RSS subreddit, it seems to have several useful plugins. One such plugin downloads the entire article even if the feed only contains part of it.
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS No worries. I’m collecting info on paid other-hosted and free self-hosted RSS aggregators before I pick one. TinyTiny RSS, FreshRSS, Newsblur, and Minflux come up often in my search results. Feedbin does too, but it sounds like a pain to self-host.
I use FreshRSS for years now, it's really nice. There's also RSS-Bridge, a great tool that accompanies FreshRSS. I also bought a license for FiveFilters to create RSS feeds for sites that don't support them. Although If anyone knows a project that does this better than FiveFilters I would love to hear.
I've tried them all, but the selfhosted one that works for me is Selfoss, which I either use the web interface or the Reader For Selfoss apk from F-droid
Wow FreshRSS looks great! Wanted to instantly try it out. Sadly I cant get it set up with pfsense HAProxy with my certificate.. i keep getting the 503 error. Does someone have a solution for that?
This doesnt work on windows without some configuration. You need some cert.pem file and you have to point to its path in the apache .ini file along with some other things.
I keep being quite impressed by the fact the theme I made shows up in videos quite often now lol.
I love FreshRSS! Thanks for sharing
You cover all the good ones. I love FreshRSS and have been self-hosting it for a few years; Best decision I've made in tech. Cheers from your neighbor in Southeast, Michigan 😀
Thank you I really needed this. I've wanted to get into RSS feeds for years but could never break into them. I needed this though because of everything you said. I read a lot all day and I sift through a lot of distractions to do it. I request more videos like this. I could always use another suggestion for a docker container!
You never got in to RSS feeds but you have knowledge to run self hosted RSS reader on docker on your own server?
@@jardelainen8278 What does one thing has to do with the other? Why would you need to be into RSS in order to run a docker service on a selfhosted server? I'm a sysadmin with 30+ years experience, I still trying to find out what is so great about RSS. I know what it is, I just don't see the big advantage over reading the posts directly at the source. You need to go there anyway in order to reply. But perhaps RSS is only meant for consumers, not for producers or participants?
@@philconners8871rss allows you to follow many sources all in a single centralized location, your reader. It's like the original social media news feed, but better because the "algorithm" is under your control.
The reddit feed one is just what I needed. Thanks :)
Have you tried Full Text RSS? It's a great way of getting the full article instead of just a snippet in the RSS feed. I use it in combination with FreshRSS.
Thanks for recommendation Tom, My first dive into RSS feeds but so far i love it, gets all the stuff i want and none of the fluff around it
I've been using this for quite a while now, hosting it in a Docker container on my Synology NAS. Simply works great.
Hey Tom thanks for mentioning Hollywood in the Background! I’ve been waiting for an answer to this :) thanks for everything you do :) specifically you are the reason I started working in IT
Hello Lawrence, from what i've gathered in the docs, they actually do have a freshrss docker images under freshrss/freshrss
As I said in the video, they are not maintained by FresRSS but by www.linuxserver.io/
TYSM for this!
I see 'hollywood' running in the background (written by a former coworker, also authored 'pet-names'). Nice! :)
thnx man.. but how does one keep your categories on the left expanded ?
Not sure if you left this in deliberately, but I thought I'd mention it as this is technically a leak of private information. At 8:40, in the bottom left is the private RSS link for your Reddit feed visible.
Nitter feed for twitter doesn't seem to work anymore ? if so an alternative ?
I am not aware of any since they killed off most API access at Twitter.
This is why you are so awesome 👏
Most sites have given up on rss. I know my stats show no one uses them any more
You are incorrect
almost every website uses rss.
I use Tiny Tiny RSS instead, the ui is more like i remember it from the popular but gone google reader.
To get feeds from sites without RSS i use RSS-Bridge.
Man, i use an RSS reader basically daily for the last ~15 years, this tech is old and underrated, but still so simple and useful.
Dang this looks really nice, I tried setting up a monitoRSS discord bot a little while ago and did get it working, but it was a huge pain in the neck and ended up breaking itself after less than a month.
Sound like an operator error.
Very nice - thanks for sharing.
now that reddit's future is questionable, I've started touching on the idea of RSS. I have FreshRSS installed on unraid and im going down this rabbit hole. Are there any freshrss extensions that are must haves?
Reddit is a mess right now for sure and just the default are good for my workflow.
Could you do a video on MiniFlux? From posts on the RSS subreddit, it seems to have several useful plugins.
One such plugin downloads the entire article even if the feed only contains part of it.
Not likely as I don't use it
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS No worries. I’m collecting info on paid other-hosted and free self-hosted RSS aggregators before I pick one. TinyTiny RSS, FreshRSS, Newsblur, and Minflux come
up often in my search results.
Feedbin does too, but it sounds like a pain to self-host.
I use FreshRSS for years now, it's really nice. There's also RSS-Bridge, a great tool that accompanies FreshRSS. I also bought a license for FiveFilters to create RSS feeds for sites that don't support them. Although If anyone knows a project that does this better than FiveFilters I would love to hear.
It's only pulling the headline, not the entire article.
I've tried them all, but the selfhosted one that works for me is Selfoss, which I either use the web interface or the Reader For Selfoss apk from F-droid
Wow FreshRSS looks great! Wanted to instantly try it out. Sadly I cant get it set up with pfsense HAProxy with my certificate.. i keep getting the 503 error. Does someone have a solution for that?
Feedly is also a good option 👍
Agreed. I love Feedly, but it is relatively expensive for what it is.
For self-hosted rss? are you sure?
Was going to say nice script that randomly RICES up the machine through a terminal multiplexer gotta get me some HOLLYWOOD.
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I think that comment about the YT algorithm upset the AI as it pulled all your videos from my feed!
This doesnt work on windows without some configuration. You need some cert.pem file and you have to point to its path in the apache .ini file along with some other things.
I just use inoreader. Its free and works on all platforms.
Only basic is free. You have to get Pro for the good features.