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  "description": "After some want to pull away from the rivers that make up my timelines across so many social networking sites\n",
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  "publishedAt": "2024-08-30T19:45:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I'm not denying it &mdash; I'm online _a lot_. If I'm not by my laptop (or PC), my phone isn't\nterribly far away. I like keeping a tab as to the going-ons of the Internet. However, I'm\nroutinely not a fan of how a feed, algorithmic or not, can keep you arrested in place. The\n_knowledge_ of something else coming down the pipeline has me eager to see what's next. This is\nwhere RSS (or Atom, JSON Feed &mdash; whatever format you want to use) comes into play.\n\nFreshRSS\nI was hunting for a RSS reader that worked with [Newsflash][1]; my preferred reader on my computer.\nThat's especially because I can turn off WiFi and read offline &mdash; one of the underrated\nfeatures of computers these days. FreshRSS came to mind as an option and I picked it because it uses\nSQLite; something that makes backups incredibly easy and has decent support for extensions (none of\nwhich I had a pressing need for).\n\n<figure>\n    <img src=\"/images/freshrss.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of FreshRSS in a Web browser\" />\n    <figcaption>\n        Ignoring my bookmarks, the interface for FreshRSS feels like it's been working for a\n        long time. That makes me feel safe!\n    </figcaption>\n</figure>\n\nAdding the bookmarklet made the act of adding feeds quite simple. I did have some issues attempting\nto add feeds from WordPress sites like [In These Times][2]; something I'll have to look into. The\nerror from the logs looks like this:\n\nI _could_ keep looking into this but I didn't care enough at the moment to do so. So far, though,\nusing this with Newsflash and for my phone, [Readrops][3]. I don't _want_ to read a lot on my phone;\nI have my eReader for reading long-form content, perhaps someone will produce that.\n\n<figure>\n    <img src=\"/images/readrops.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of Readrops on my phone\" />\n    <figcaption>\n        No real clutter, though the way that the time is shown could be improved, no?\n    </figcaption>\n</figure>\n\nI'm eager to report back on this experience but so far, I've been loving it. An underlying ambition\nis to have something akin to a [social reader][6]. The _logic_ for building one is quite clear, however, the\ninterface and experience is something I'd need to explore, and as such, I'm throwing myself into\nthis to develop that. One thing I managed to quickly fix is how my personal site advertises feeds.\nNow you should be able to just drop any URL from my site and find all of the feeds I provide.\n\nTo RSS, ATOM and all its friends!\n\n[1]: https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk\n[2]: https://inthesetimes.com/\n[3]: https://github.com/readrops/Readrops\n[4]: https://koreader.rocks/\n[5]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/9937\n[6]: https://indieweb.org/reader",
  "title": "I Decided to Invest a Bit More in RSS"
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