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  [POC] rssFriends.com: a self-hosted social RSS Radar that meets the Fediverse

  TL;DR: I built a self-hostable social RSS reader that federates with Mastodon. Live demo + code linked below

  Today the POC of my favorite feed reader is finally ready, it has all the features I had in mind for it.

  It started from a small idea. In my world, very few people around me use RSS, and I always wanted to know what they follow and what they find interesting, maybe I'd want to follow them too. For example, I knew two of my coworkers were daily RSS users like me, but there was no way for us to see each other's reading.

  So I let myself dream a bit and, with the help of AI, put together a version of that dream. You can see the live instance here: https://rssfriends.com/

  The code of this POC lives here: https://github.com/pesarkhobeee/FediverseRssFriends

  In short: it's a social, RSS-friendly radar for the open web, self-hosted, with magic-link auth, and connected to the fediverse (ActivityPub).

  In detail you can:

  • Add RSS or Atom feeds and put them in your own categories
  • Share your list of feeds on a public page, or keep your account fully private
  • Follow other people and see what they read or bookmark
  • Save (bookmark) items you like
  • Group your feeds into categories, and subscribe to each category as its own RSS feed
  • Follow people on Mastodon and other rssFriends servers, and let them follow you from where they already are. This part uses ActivityPub (the same protocol Mastodon uses)
  • It also supports the wonderful Wallabag: you can bookmark anything and it's automatically saved to your Wallabag. This is probably my favourite feature, because it fits my personal workflow: I bookmark what I like on rssfriends.com, it goes to my Wallabag, and from there it shows up on my e-reader (KOReader), which also supports Wallabag.

  If you want, you can visit my public page and see if it's something you'd enjoy using too:

  https://rssfriends.com/u/farid?cat=weblogs

  submitted by /u/farid_berlin
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