An interesting thread was started on lobste.rs. Commenters mentioned a lot of different tools they use to read and keep track of their content feeds. And a lot of them, sounded very familiar. In the past, I went through Google Reader, FreshRSS and newsboat among others. All of them had their own shortcomings, related to how you read the feed or how the status of posts is synced (or rather not synced) on multiple devices. That post inspired me to play around with something different.

Miniflux was mentioned at least a couple of times, and I really appreciate that the author (Frédéric Guillot) took the time to explain his design choices: simplicity (both UI and feature set), single binary written in Go, minimal JavaScript, no mobile application (resonates with me, I find using a browser simpler for reading content). The only thing that I found controversial was the decision to use PostgreSQL (burden of managing a separate server instead of say using SQLite). Oh well ... I assume the author knew better than I do what fitted his design.

So ... after some minutes of configuring Docker images on my Synology (for both Miniflux and PostgreSQL) I have my very own instance of a self-hosted RSS reader. Time will tell if this solution will stick, but it works well on a mobile phone + I really appreciate a running instance takes 35MB of RAM (+ ~80MB for the database, but I might use it for other things).

Very fitting to gain some (rss) vendor independence on Polish Independence Day.