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   Bernie The Wordsmith (berniethewordsmith@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 07:56:48 JST Bernie The Wordsmith

   People of the #fediverse, what #RSS reader can you recommend that is #freesoftware (as in free speech, it's okay if not as in free beer)?

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 07:56:46 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • dragestil
     but, but... why not gnus' builtin nnrss backend? so that you can't read stuff while offline?
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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 07:56:47 JST dragestil

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     @berniethewordsmith On GNU/Emacs, a cron timer running an rss-to-maildir convertor (e.g. f2md), followed by a mail server (e.g. dovecot) that serves the maildir as imap, followed by gnus nnimap

     I'm not kidding, that's how I read RSS on my laptop and it works fine.

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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 11:56:56 JST dragestil

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo maybe there's a config that would work but the nnimap+dovecot combination was ironically simpler to set up and seems more reliable, with the support for fulltext indexing from dovecot too.

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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 11:56:57 JST dragestil

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo I didn't like nnrss when i tried it two years ago, and I don't remember exactly why. Looking at my notes it seems to be a combination of

     1. polling all RSS feeds blocks (emacs or gnus) startup
     2. setting nnrss-use-local to fix the first problem caused some feeds to be missing
     3. Refreshing mail with g becoming slow, it's bad idea for a less important thing (RSS) to affect a more important one (mail)
     4. it seems to be contacting random feed servers too often