// ITS FOSS — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
Escape the Algorithm: 10 RSS Feed Readers You Can Self Host in Your Homelab
I have argued this in the past as well. RSS feeds are the simplest way to get out of the algorithm's web.
Every platform wants to decide what they think you should read. RSS feed is the resistance. You have a list of your own favorite websites that you trust (like It's FOSS), you add these sources in the feed reader and you get to see all the newly published articles from the sources you want.
There are several feed readers for Linux desktop. Even email clients allow you to read from RSS feeds.
But they are confined with a single machine. Since self-hosting is increasingly (and rightly) being popular these days, you can try self-hosting feed readers in your homelab. This should allow you to access your feeds on all the compatible devices on the home network.
And if you want to go the self hosting way, I have a bunch of suggestions for you to explore.
For this list, I looked at how easy each tool is to actually self-host with Docker, whether it can be used with mobile apps (through the Fever or Google Reader API), whether it can generate a feed for a site that doesn't provide an RSS feed on its own, and whether there's a real hosted option if you'd rather not run the server yourself and yet pay for an open source software service.
Yarr (short for "yet another rss reader") is a single Go binary with an embedded SQLite database. No separate database server, no multi-container setup, just one file you run.
You can run it as a desktop app with a system tray icon on Linux (and Windows and macOS), or point the same binary at a server and use it headlessly over the browser. It picked up Fever API support a while back, so it now works with Fever-compatible mobile clients like Reeder and Unread, something it didn't have for most of its life.
It's built for single person use. There's no multi-user support and OPML handling is basic compared to FreshRSS or Miniflux, so double check your import works before you commit to it.
Yarr is open source under the MIT license and self-hosted only. There's no official paid hosting.