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Cross-platform FOSS RSS reader?
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this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
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I do not have an answer to your question, but just saying that I was thinking about the same.
We should have some standard format for subscribed feeds (probably just a text file with URLs, newsboat has this) and for related data (read unread state for every article, maybe tags, started articles etc.), I believe this can be done in a text file (one or multiple) too, but AFAIK we don't have this at the moment. If we had this, and RSS apps would support this format of keeping data, we would be able to use RSS on multiple devices seamlessly via just Syncthing, without using any server based solutions like tt-rss, freshrss, inoreader etc.
I'm not a developer myself, so the only thing I can do is hope some day devs of RSS apps implement this.
I wish all apps would keep their data in plain format in accessible locations, so that we wouldn't need any «clouds» for stuff like bookmarks, to-do lists, notes, news etc.
As another commenter has said, Syncthing can't do conflict control, so this solution would not be suitable for every user and a lot of them would still prefer something with a server to sync. Still, I'm ready to accept that since I mostly read RSS feeds on a single device and only use the others from time to time
Same. Also, if all data is stored in plain text, you could be using git or anything else instead of syncthing, so it still would be good to have this as an option.