It's time to make your own RSS reader
Blog post from Tailscale
RSS offers a non-algorithmic way to follow websites, authors, and topics selected by the reader, and the post explains how to self-host FreshRSS as a private, personal feed aggregator accessible through Tailscale. It recommends using Docker to deploy FreshRSS consistently on hardware ranging from a VPS or Raspberry Pi to a laptop or Mac mini, then downloading the ScaleTail FreshRSS configuration, adding a Tailscale authentication key, tailnet details, time zone, credentials, and email to its environment file. After launching the containers with Docker Compose, users can access FreshRSS through a secure Tailscale URL, add feeds manually or through automatic site detection, and customize the reader’s appearance. The setup can also enable API access for third-party RSS applications such as NetNewsWire and Reeder, or for AI agents that can scan subscribed feeds and generate focused digests. The post presents RSS curation as a modest but durable alternative to attention-optimized social and news platforms, emphasizing that maintaining a personally chosen collection of sources can produce a more deliberate reading experience.
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