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[–] asjmcguire@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I self host FreshRSS and among the many sites I subscribe to, I also subscribe to quite a few hashtags on Mastodon which I'm aware isn't highly publicised so not everyone knows you can do that.

If someone reads this comment that didn't know you could do that -

Instance/tags/hashtag.rss

Eg:

https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction.rss

You are welcome.

(Set your purge limits aggressively, because despite people suggesting otherwise, you will very quickly have thousands of unread articles to trawl through)

[–] Schnaftator@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, your comment took me down a rabbit hole. I now too self-host FreshRSS on my NAS using Docker. And, oh boy, this is so good!

[–] asjmcguire@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent! If you looking for an Android app - although the PWA is pretty good too, Readrops is what I use, because it supports the GoogleReader API that FreshRSS exposes.

[–] Schnaftator@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Will definitely check out that app. I've used Feedly so far, but was pretty amazed by FreshRSS' PWA.

[–] francorbacho@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What hashtags in particular are you subscribed to?

[–] asjmcguire@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

#android #fediverse #homeassistant for my interests - and #introduction to make sure that I see and boost plenty of newcomers to get them a good start on the fediverse. It's introduction in particular that requires a very aggressive purge policy! I only keep I think 50 introduction posts across 3 days, but even then - my FreshRSS is typically 1200 articles on a daily basis.

[–] francorbacho@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

requires a very aggressive purge policy

Was going to say — that looks like it would include a lot of noise. Thank you for your response!