<story><title>Goodbye, Feedly</title><url>https://erikgahner.dk/2022/goodbye-feedly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blacklight</author><text>RSS is basically impossible to monetize. It&amp;#x27;s a protocol to access content. Monetizing RSS is like trying to monetize HTTP.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that companies try to monetize RSS, and the only way of doing so is to provide features that RSS can&amp;#x27;t offer. AI-curated feeds, integrations with X or Y, nudges to let go of RSS entirely for some applications and instead use whatever integration they&amp;#x27;ve come up with...&lt;p&gt;Some people may be happy with this. Some people may only care about the information they eventually get, not HOW they get it. But I&amp;#x27;m not among those people, and many other people are not.&lt;p&gt;I personally felt very annoyed by Feedly nagging me on a daily basis to upgrade in order to get features that I didn&amp;#x27;t need and never asked for.&lt;p&gt;I feel like being approached every day by a dude who wants to sell me a vaccum cleaner that I don&amp;#x27;t want. And of course I understand that they also need to make money, but they should also respect those who simply want an RSS reader and are insensitive to all these campaigns.&lt;p&gt;Thats the reason why I moved from Feedly to a self-hosted Miniflux instance (and Nextcloud News before it). If I host it myself, then I don&amp;#x27;t have to pay anyone for hosting my feeds, and I&amp;#x27;m not supposed to be targeted by marketing campaigns to pull money out of my wallet on a daily basis.</text></item><item><author>longrod</author><text>Going through the article I realized this attitude is what eventually kills some really good software. If a software does what you expect it to do and does it well but includes a few prompts here and there for marketing purposes...is that really so bad?&lt;p&gt;Live and let live, I say. Not everyone is running a charity and Feedly is nowhere even near the top of the list of software ripping off their users or selling their data to make money.&lt;p&gt;What the author labels as &amp;quot;cluttered&amp;quot; is really not that cluttered at all. It looks much better than an completely empty list in the alternative they prefer. But that&amp;#x27;s just UI.&lt;p&gt;I am not saying don&amp;#x27;t move to another alternative. I am just saying that the reasons the author is calling Feedly out for are unjustified and don&amp;#x27;t really make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The problem is that companies try to monetize RSS, and the only way of doing so is to provide features that RSS can&amp;#x27;t offer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if I agree; I pay Newsblur a yearly fee because it&amp;#x27;s worth it to me having a centralized web-app that I don&amp;#x27;t have to self-host (and consequently, don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about paying for, or hitting rate limits, etc.) with a nice UI and a few features like sorting by folder.&lt;p&gt;Granted, I have no idea how much it costs to run Newsblur; I certainly hope they&amp;#x27;re at least breaking even. I also don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;m a typical-enough user.</text></comment>
<story><title>Goodbye, Feedly</title><url>https://erikgahner.dk/2022/goodbye-feedly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blacklight</author><text>RSS is basically impossible to monetize. It&amp;#x27;s a protocol to access content. Monetizing RSS is like trying to monetize HTTP.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that companies try to monetize RSS, and the only way of doing so is to provide features that RSS can&amp;#x27;t offer. AI-curated feeds, integrations with X or Y, nudges to let go of RSS entirely for some applications and instead use whatever integration they&amp;#x27;ve come up with...&lt;p&gt;Some people may be happy with this. Some people may only care about the information they eventually get, not HOW they get it. But I&amp;#x27;m not among those people, and many other people are not.&lt;p&gt;I personally felt very annoyed by Feedly nagging me on a daily basis to upgrade in order to get features that I didn&amp;#x27;t need and never asked for.&lt;p&gt;I feel like being approached every day by a dude who wants to sell me a vaccum cleaner that I don&amp;#x27;t want. And of course I understand that they also need to make money, but they should also respect those who simply want an RSS reader and are insensitive to all these campaigns.&lt;p&gt;Thats the reason why I moved from Feedly to a self-hosted Miniflux instance (and Nextcloud News before it). If I host it myself, then I don&amp;#x27;t have to pay anyone for hosting my feeds, and I&amp;#x27;m not supposed to be targeted by marketing campaigns to pull money out of my wallet on a daily basis.</text></item><item><author>longrod</author><text>Going through the article I realized this attitude is what eventually kills some really good software. If a software does what you expect it to do and does it well but includes a few prompts here and there for marketing purposes...is that really so bad?&lt;p&gt;Live and let live, I say. Not everyone is running a charity and Feedly is nowhere even near the top of the list of software ripping off their users or selling their data to make money.&lt;p&gt;What the author labels as &amp;quot;cluttered&amp;quot; is really not that cluttered at all. It looks much better than an completely empty list in the alternative they prefer. But that&amp;#x27;s just UI.&lt;p&gt;I am not saying don&amp;#x27;t move to another alternative. I am just saying that the reasons the author is calling Feedly out for are unjustified and don&amp;#x27;t really make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Deletionk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m using the Feedly app not paid since Google shut down theirs.&lt;p&gt;I have no clue what you mean.&lt;p&gt;Where do they show this daily?&lt;p&gt;And don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, you traided self management against a nag pop up? It&amp;#x27;s your choice but Feedly still does it with a reasonable offering.&lt;p&gt;And I actually thinking about going pro to remove all the rumor news shit I don&amp;#x27;t care and the cve feature sounds nice as well.</text></comment>