It sounds simple on the surface. You copy a link on a site into a feed reader app. Then whenever that site updates you get a nice readable article on the app.
But that sounds like something that could be accomplished locally. Why does every RSS reader I run into require an account or otherwise rely on the cloud?
It was done locally at first. They need accounts to push for subscriptions and to steal your reading habits.
They do not need an account ever.
There are a few companies that run reader apps that do require an account.
RSS was very common until Google created Google Reader, everyone centralized on it for some reason, then they killed it. Then Google and Apple and Firefox removed rss feeds from their browsers.
There are independent apps not is hard to find good ones
NetNewsWire is a phone app that handles RSS locally - it just has to do a bunch of updating every time you open the app
You could also run FreshRSS locally and use a client
+1 for FreshRSS
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It can absolutely be local.
For podcasts I use AntennaPod, for news I use Feeder. Whatever your use case, there is probably a local, well-made FOSS option.
Nonlocal uses have additional capabilities, such as syncing across multiple devices. I also use gpodder.net for podcast syncing, although there are self-hosted options for this as well.
Accounts are not required.
I use mpage https://github.com/mpod/mPage?tab=readme-ov-file
dense and simple
