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Looking for a desktop RSS feed reader for Linux (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by CptHacke@piefed.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I used to adore the Feedbro extension for Firefox - until I learned that browser extensions are a privacy concern and stopped using them. Unfortunately, I've been unable to find anything similar for the Linux desktop. I just can't seem to find the 'sweet spot' with all the readers I've tried. Some are bloated with features and complicated configurations that I will never use. Others are too simplistic. Still others haven't seen an update in years. I feel like this is an impossible quest.

The readers I have tried (and discarded):

Liferea
RSS Guard
News Flash
Feeds
Feed Deck
Feed Flow
Akregator
Thunderbird
Raven Reader

Here are the features I need:

FOSS (obviously)
Import/export OPML
Scale the size of the UI and all text elements
RSS feed discovery
Fetch full articles
Configure update interval
Privacy-conscious
Desktop only (I am currently unable to self-host)

Things that would be nice, but I can live without if I have to:

Dark mode
An uncluttered, two-column display

That's about it. Now tell me that I am asking too much and there's no hope for me. :D

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[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does "desktop" means no TUI? Because newsraft and its predecessor newsboat are pretty cool. Newsraft is the one I use.

[–] CptHacke@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was really interested in trying feedr, but got frustrated trying to install it and moved on to other potential options.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

hmm, it depends on the distribution. On artix for example it's available from stock official repos, and also from AUR (meaning it has to be built) but its build is pretty simple according to its own newsraft repo, just make + make install. It's C based, so it should build everywhere, in case interested. I prefer building it from AUR rather than using the distro repos package, to be more up to date, and it builds really fast. At any rate, just an option in case willing to explore it later. I explored several feed readers before, being the last gui I tried "news-flash" which can or can not be used with a combination of feeds self hosted server. I ended up looking at newsraft, and hadn't looked back since.