I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I’ve got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

@chrono@apollo.town
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FreshRSS, news and websites fetched your way. You can even create feeds for websites that don’t provide one

This is exactly what I need. Let me do some research on this.

@gkpy@feddit.de
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i use miniflux, anyone have used both and can tell me if I’m missing out on smth :)

@mrjfilippo@lemmy.world
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Any mobile app you use it with?

On iOS, I’ve had good experience with NetNewsWire and Reeder

@Drudge@lemmy.world
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Quick question, don’t want to highjack the thread. This looks interesting, but I don’t understand why I couldn’t just install it on my regular laptop running fedora. Why does it need it’s own server?

@chrono@apollo.town
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Well you can install it locally and get the web interface via localhost, but if it’s a proper server you can access the news from your sources from anywhere and you can also use 3rd party apps in your phone to get a different interface via the API

@dan@upvote.au
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FreshRSS is just a PHP app so you don’t even need a VPS - you could even install it in a regular shared hosting account.

@Drudge@lemmy.world
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Oh ok thanks. I do like the idea of access from anywhere… I’m guessing a VPN would be needed on the server and phone? Or is this a whole big thing?

@med@sh.itjust.works
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It depends on how secure you want to get with it. You could just host it with any of the hosting providers and have it public - or you could have it behind a vpn on that server

If you were hosting it at home, you’d likely want to restrict access to behind a vpn. No sense advertising your network is any more interesting than it needs to be

@chrono@apollo.town
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Check out tailscale, the best tool ever to access a server without opening ports or doing hard stuff

Hroderic
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Or Cloudflare tunnels

@chrono@apollo.town
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yeah but I kinda dislike cloudflare. Tailscale is based on wireguard which is cool

Hroderic
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Cool, I’ve heard of it but never really looked into it. I’ll give it a try.

@null@slrpnk.net
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Do you have any recommendations for 3rd party apps? I did a quick search but couldn’t find any apps built for FreshRSS

@jessejames@lemmy.world
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Reeder for iOS/macOS can’t be beat!

@BumbleBear@lemmy.world
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On their GitHub page it has a list mobile / native apps that can access FreshRSS.

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On Android, the main apps are Readrops and FeedMe

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Brilliant. Thanks!

Hey I got FreshRSS self hosted and everything is up and running smooth. Only thing is, for the websites without RSS… how did you get the RSS for those?

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I made a blog about this. Make sure to follow it via RSS too ;)

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/newsboat-queries-and-freshrss-scraping/

Thanks bro

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