It started with me getting fed up with Feedly trying to up-sell me to their premium subscription. I mean I get it but $5/month to host a simple RSS aggregator? This seems quite a hefty price (even with all the extras it provides, which I never really use).
So I first looked for alternatives to Feedly and found quite a lot. The main thing for me was having a Sync API, so I’m not reading the same stuff across my different devices. My thought was with a standard API, it wouldn’t matter what client or platform I use (although I’m using Linux and Android mainly). Standard I thought… boy was I dreaming.
After a lot of looking and reading I said screw this, I’m self hosting my own copy of tiny tiny rss, which seems very popular with people like myself trying to do the same thing. It seemed quite straight forward and I decided it was time to give rkt or docker a try as there was a docker image for it.
In a evening I had it setup, running and working with my exported feedly OPML file, while watching a film and cooking. Its currently only available to my network but I’ll likely make it externally available (without my VPN) once I got it setup with a SSL cert and 2 factor auth. I did notice my fav RSS reader on Android did support ttrss then somewhere along the line they pulled support for it. So I’ll try out the android app created by the author of ttrss, but the comments are… well.. interesting?
I recently upgraded to the Feedly paid subscription – the killer feature for me was IFTTT integration. All of the other services I use, I have wired up to IFTTT to feed favourites / saved / watch-later style content into pinboard.in. RSS was the remaining service.
I always like the idea of hosting my own services (think the last one I ran – blog aside – was thinkup – RIP), but I find it’s never as smooth as I hope it to be. Keep us updated with how you get on with ttrss.
Thanks i will… Just navigating the RSS clients for Linux which supports ttrss.