FreshRSS

please forgive the listicle

overview

I spent the morning setting up FreshRSS on my Linux VIPS. I’ll test-drive it this week to see if I want to switch from Inoreader. Ino does a pretty good job but:

• in the present political environment I’d rather keep my information sources private
• Inoreader has a habit of “clickbaiting” features by making you click on them before they say it’s for paid versions only. C’mon, many, just put a gold star or something on the link so we can tell it isn’t for the poor folk.
• I am approaching the 150-feed limit for plebes. Yes, that is a lot of feeds. But I don’t need them updated frequently. 1x/day would be fine. I’m trying to clean out my YT subscriptions and move the remaining ones over to RSS.

Bumbled through adding the new hostname to my existing Let’s Encrypt cert setup. Found some sample .htaccess configs on freshrss.org and compared them against my generics; that was the last step to getting it running on SSL.

how I got here

1. RSS on local clients; my bandwidth challenges on the road make this less than ideal
2. Google Reader.
3. self-hosted on Tiny Tiny RSS. I liked the software but the developer was enough of an a-hole that I boycotted that product. And I’m not a habitual boycotter.
4. Inoreader
5. FreshRSS