It’s always good to be in control of your own content sources.

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    1 year ago

    I self host FreshRSS and among the many sites I subscribe to, I also subscribe to quite a few hashtags on Mastodon which I’m aware isn’t highly publicised so not everyone knows you can do that.

    If someone reads this comment that didn’t know you could do that -

    Instance/tags/hashtag.rss

    Eg:

    https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction.rss

    You are welcome.

    (Set your purge limits aggressively, because despite people suggesting otherwise, you will very quickly have thousands of unread articles to trawl through)

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        1 year ago

        #android #fediverse #homeassistant for my interests - and #introduction to make sure that I see and boost plenty of newcomers to get them a good start on the fediverse. It’s introduction in particular that requires a very aggressive purge policy! I only keep I think 50 introduction posts across 3 days, but even then - my FreshRSS is typically 1200 articles on a daily basis.

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          requires a very aggressive purge policy

          Was going to say — that looks like it would include a lot of noise. Thank you for your response!

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      1 year ago

      Wow, your comment took me down a rabbit hole. I now too self-host FreshRSS on my NAS using Docker. And, oh boy, this is so good!

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        Excellent! If you looking for an Android app - although the PWA is pretty good too, Readrops is what I use, because it supports the GoogleReader API that FreshRSS exposes.