I would like to start using RSS feeds but every client I’ve searched up has a subscription method of payment. Are there any RSS clients that don’t do this?
Which platform? I use NetNewsWire on iOS.
That’s what I use, too. I am having a hard time finding good US/world news feeds though, the basics like NBC, CBS, etc. I’ve found some newspapers like WaPo, AP, NYT, etc, but some of the others like seriously haven’t updated their RSS pages since 2013 and they don’t really work anymore.
Thunderbird has RSS feature AFAIK. KDE’s KMail as well.
Reeder for Apple platforms is pay-once and lets you sync using your iCloud account
I use feeder (and apparently there’s more than one rss app called feeder), and it’s FOSS. I like it a lot. The one feature it doesn’t have is any filtering. I wish I could filter some feeds. My local news seems to be like 50% sports, and a lot of sites these days have half of the “articles” they put out just containing a list of Amazon affiliate links. It also doesn’t do audio of video, but I don’t use it for that
omnivore.app is wicked
You can self host with nextcloud. There are also client specific apps as well.
Been using free tier Feedly for many years now. It’s “good enough”. Before that I used Akgregator, which did a pretty decent job for a local app.
Other odd RSS adventures: I played with self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS for a while, and it is actually pretty awesome. It’s automatic filtering and tagging capabilities were amazing. But I got tired of maintaining it. I toyed with NetVibes ages ago – it is a “dashboard” oriented web site, with RSS support. It worked pretty well actually, but the UI is … unusual. It used to be free. Maybe still is. I don’t know. I found myself using the cleaner and simpler “good enough” Feedly more.
It should be pretty easy to move your RSS feed collection between apps/services as most of them support OPML format import/export. So just go ahead and try stuff and see what you like. (Just check first that it supports OPML import/export.)
You might be interested in this somewhat similar recent thread: lemmy.ml/post/7624818
