Why do you add FreshRSS in instead of subscribing directly in NNW? (Real question, not leading.) What am I missing by not doing that?
Why do you add FreshRSS in instead of subscribing directly in NNW? (Real question, not leading.) What am I missing by not doing that?
> cross-device sync
FreshRSS acts first as your central backend to manage your subscriptions, refresh and read status.
You can use its web UI to act on it, or you can use any reader app you want (NNW, Reeder...)
Gotcha. I guess where our use cases differ is that I use only one RSS reader so don’t care about sharing its state with other readers. That’d be super handy if I did, though.
My main points for running a self-hosted RSS service are:
1. It updates the feeds even though I'm not online on any device - this is an issue if your only RSS reader is on a desktop you turn off. You might miss items on feeds that roll over after X entries
2. I can read from multiple devices.
I mainly read on my laptop, big screen for big articles and all that. But sometimes I want to check the feeds on my phone, but don't want to wade through 420 articles I've already read on my actual computer -> syncing with single source is essential.
3. I can easily run feed hydrators on the same machine as FreshRSS.
For example: My HN feed is automatically filtered by the hydrator based on comment count, vote count, key words etc. Stuff that's not in the feed. It also grabs the linked article's OpenGraph data and inserts it to the feed so that I can get a preview of the article without opening the link at all.