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A new feed tool

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Chat-Gpt Rss Nextcloud
A photorealistic image representing the transition from an overloaded Nextcloud system to a decentralized setup. On the left side, visualize Nextcloud as a large, overburdened cruise ship weighed down by too many apps, tools, and clutter, symbolizing its bulky and slow nature. On the right side, smaller, independent boats sail away from the ship, representing the apps that have been removed and are now decentralized. The scene takes place on a calm sea, with the cruise ship appearing heavy and slow, while the small boats look agile and efficient. The sky is clear, and the color scheme transitions from warmer, heavier tones near the ship to cooler, lighter tones around the smaller boats.

I’m using my Nextcloud for a while now. It started as a simple tool to synchronize my files over all my devices. Over time the developers added a lot of new features or apps which where exciting to use.

However, at some point I wondered what I would do, if my instance crashed. A single point of failure. Gone would be my photos, documents, calendar entries, bookmarks, feeds and what not. So I slowly took it apart and nowadays it only serves two purposed:

  1. A plattform to easily provide files for friends (I do all my file synchronization with Syncthing now)
  2. My rss feed aggregator and viewer at the same time (Nextcloud News)

Since Nextcloud was never intended to be used as a feed reader, I decided to try something new: Miniflux. The installation was easy enough and I will use the web interface for reading when I’m on my computer.

On my phone it’s more convenient to use an app. I looked at a few and decided to start with NetNewsWire. The configuration is easy as well, wouldn’t there be the one stepping stone that I didn’t see in the beginning.

Miniflux offers a wide array of third-party integrations. They are off by default. To NetNewsWire to access Miniflux’ data I needed to enable a third party API, namely Google Reader API. Once I enabled it with a custom username and password I was able to add a new “FreshRSS” account in NetNewsWire with the credentials that I just added in the Google Reader API. It’s not rocket science, one just has to understand how this all plays together.

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