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KDE Connect of the Future (tintotint.eu)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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[–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I have a stupid idea about a semi-local RSS feed: say there is a db file of your RSS feeds that is automatically synced between your phone and your PC via KDE Connect technology. You can consume said feed with either Akregator (PC) and a phone app (iirc there's already a KDE phone app to read RSS) and both will keep track of your feeds, groups, read status and etcetera. No need to login to a third party service or anything like that.

I just don't know if this makes sense only to me or how to post this as an idea somewhere - the times I've tried to do that in the past I just got sealioned

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago

    I mean, I do like the idea, but syncing such a database file is by far the smallest challenge about this (and could be easily achieved today with e.g. Syncthing or Rsync).

    The far harder part is getting RSS readers to support the same file format. There is actually a small project (by basically a singular guy), which tries to accomplish this: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
    The desktop RSS reader it supports is GTK, though.

    Somewhat of a technologically simpler solution might be to self-host FreshRSS.
    Unfortunately, it is of course less simple to actually use, unless you have a home server and some sysadmin skills...

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