This is a honest question. I have two RSS services hosted on my server, and I don’t see the point. RSS is by nature distributed, and subscribing to my own server just makes the source of all news being the same. What is the advantage? What do people use it for?

  • Someology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    11 months ago

    Some jerk company (like Google) cannot suddenly discontinue my entire reader with all my feeds, because its mine, on my server. But because it’s a web app, I can use it from any device, unlike a local app. After Google killed reader, That was just too annoying. Self hosted since.

  • ChrislyBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    11 months ago

    A self-hostes RSS reader? Probably the ability to read your stuff from anywhere without installing something. Like on your work PC… ;)

    • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      That and sync. I wanna keep track of what I read already. Add to that functionality for saving favorites etc and you got a much better package overall.

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    For me, it makes the clients disposable. I can reinstall the laptop, desktop, phone and be up and running in no time, without doing backups and preparation. Also it is easy to jump between clients.

    The server needs to be backed up though

    • Nik282000@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Device agnosticism. Life is easier when it doesn’t take ONE laptop or phone failure to destroy all your data.

  • kpw@kbin.social
    18·
    11 months ago

    Sync between devices. I only read RSS on one device so I don’t need it either. Besides if you don’t think a service is useful to you why do you host it?

  • Rizoid@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    After years of using Feeder on my phone and some other random stuff on my laptop, I switched to FreshRSS on my server and the big thing is everything stays synced. My read and stared articles are all where they should be. I run fluent reader on all my devices and tailscale keeps me always connected to my reader so I can save articles on my phone when I don’t have time to read them then read them when I get home on my laptop or tablet.

  • axiomaticsquid@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    In addition to the other positives, I Miniflux with YouTube subscriptions. No ads and no tracking when set up with invidious proxies.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I used to pay Inoreader for the premium features they offer, but now I get them for free with FreshRss on my server. It’s not exposed to the world but I can wireguard in when I need. Works great, basically maintenance free.

    • spiezer@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      It’s crazy how they increased the prices each and every year. I switched to FreshRSS too. Amazing software

      • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yah, they’re a good company and have a very good product, but I know how to do this on my own, thanks to the good folks at FreshRss, so…

    • ogarcia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I was an Inoreader user too, but I discovered Miniflux and cannot be happier 😉

  • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Maybe you don’t run anything worth subscribing to for yourself but if youre running services that have any kind of updates you want to notify people of RSS would be a way to do it. Any kind of blog can have an RSS feed of new posts, you could have a feed of the newest files uploaded to a site.

    RSS readers like freshrss let you subscribe to other RSS feeds, so in that case they just work as any other RSS reader.

  • techgearwhips@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I have a self hosted freshRSS but I still just use the Feeder app 99.9% of the time. I guess I just keep Fresh as a backup in case the Feeder app ever goes down.