Started with RSS recently, and I’ve been using Feeder, but UI wasn’t vibing with me so I wanted to explore other options
One that stood out was Tiny Tiny RSS, but I noticed that it’s self-hosted
Which made me wonder, what are the other feed apps doing? I assumed no back end would be necessary since I can provide the link to the RSS XML
So what kinds of things are the servers doing?
Or am I misinformed and Tiny Tiny RSS is self-hosted because it is doing something beyond the usual feed readers
All feed readers talk to other machines to get the feeds you’re reading. TTRSS is just fetching them and storing them locally regularly instead of just when the client is running. I don’t remember whether or not TTRSS has a reader interface or whether you need to use a client to talk to it.