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Something I thought was old and boring until I tried it for myself: #RSS

I especially like it in combination with a way to sync/backup your feeds, like #FreshRSS, which I'm self-hosting. It's duct taped together for now as I first wanted to try it out, but I'm liking it so far. I had seen those RSS buttons on websites for a while and I never had a way to use them. I guess that's the fun of self-hosting: you notice a problem, and you can always find a solution.

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@voxel Wasn't it the dream, once, that we'd all publish #OPML feeds of our feeds, then they'd be easy to browse and others' could quickly click through and see who we follow and who they follow in turn?

(I was going to just reply with the URL of my OPML, but it seems that #FreshRSS doesn't expose it.)

🚧 Avviso di manutenzione e migrazione servizi Devol 🚧

:cryptpad: #CryptPad
A partire da domani, il servizio su cryptpad.devol.it potrebbe risultare offline.
Stiamo infatti procedendo con la migrazione su un server dedicato più veloce.

:freshrss: #FreshRSS
⚠️ È obbligatorio esportare il proprio file OPML entro il giorno 12 giugno, così da salvare l’elenco dei propri feed con cui si potrà ricreare l’account.

Grazie per la collaborazione e la pazienza!
Il team #Devol

:devol: @devol@feddit.it

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A recent update on my #Android phone messed up my PWA apps, including #freshrss and #Mastodon. The top status/ notification bar was overlapping the PWA, making what was underneath unaccessible and partially blocked.

I had to go into Settings - Display - Camera cutout - Your PWA App browser or program - Show camera cutout and changed the default 'auto' to 'hide camera cutout.'

If anyone comes across that, give that a try #mastoadmin. At first I thought it had to do with Mastodon's PWA but then it started happening with freshrss so I ruled out Mastodon

I’ve got my #freshrss installation automatically updating its feeds now, so that’s nice.

Amazon Linux AL2023 doesn’t include cron, preferring to use systemctl timers. So I’ve added how to achieve this in my blog post here, which is really for me when I come to reinstall this box in years to come, but in case it’s useful to someone else..

james.cridland.net/blog/2025/f

James Cridland - radio futurologist · FreshRSS installation and tweaks
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Tonight's tinkering:
a) gracefully restarting the Apache and PHP-FPM processes hourly on my image resizer box, in lieu of understanding why it keeps falling over.
b) Hopefully getting my #FreshRSS install to automatically check the RSS feeds regularly. Will write that up, once I've got some vague clue whether it's actually doing it.
c) Configuring my first HTML/XPATH scraper for FreshRSS, because ARN - Australia's worst radio group - has deliberately removed its RSS feed for its press website
d) Understanding how to get full content from FreshRSS, because a friend of mine has a partial feed

Using #FreshRSS as your feed reader? You can make it look modern and lovely.

1. In the settings menu, go to "User extensions" and turn on User CSS.
2. In the settings menu for *that*, add the following in "Additional CSS rules"...

html, body{font-family:system-ui !important;}

3. Profit.

(system-ui is your system's standard font-face, which is typically built to look really good on your machine. And, unlike the default font used by FreshRSS out of the box, it actually has *real* bold and italics.)

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@benbrown I've relied on RSS for so many years. I love hosting my #FreshRSS instance. I've been doing it for over a year now and comfortable enough to disable my "TheOldReader" subscription, which I have had since I can't remember. I just remember all the greader shutdown swearing...

Oh punaise ! Je viens de découvrir un truc qu'il est super pratique.

Je savais qu'on pouvait suivre un compte Mastodon via son flux RSS, avec une adresse du type :

https://instanceURL/@user.rss

Et je me suis demandé si c'était possible de ne suivre que les messages avec média (utile pour les œuvres d'un⋅e artiste). J'ai donc essayé ce type d'URL et ça fonctionne ! 🎉

https://instanceURL/@user/media.rss

#Mastodon#Tip#RSS