Comment on Is self-hosting on personal computer practical?
tal@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I’m not familiar with FreshRSS, but assuming that there’s something in the protocol that lets a reader push up a “read” bit on an per article basis — this page references a “GReader” API — I’d assume that that’d depend on the client, not the server.
If the client attempts an update and fails and that causes it to not retry again later, then I imagine that it wouldn’t work. If it does retry until it sets the bit, I’d imagine that it does work. The FreshRSS server can’t really be a factor, because it won’t know whether the client has tried to talk to it when it’s off.
BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 4 days ago
You’re 100% right, OP could sync their mobile apps when the PC is up and get everything to work when it’s off.
erick@piefed.erick.sh 4 days ago
Agree here too. FreshRSS is an RSS aggregator, basically a self-hosted GReader, which means it fetches the item contents and syncs the read status across clients. That is the HUGE advantage of using it instead of just adding the feeds directly to your client in your device.
Other FreshRSS features I love are the option to load full content of item that only share excerpts, and the option to use CSS selectors to remove content you don’t want (like embedded ads).