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I use a self-hosted yarr [1] instance for rss. It is really minimal and very easy to run (self contained native binary).
[1] https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
I’ve been very happy with https://feedbin.com
It’s a paid RSS syncing service and web app too, costs $5 per month, I use it with Reeder (and NetNewsWire etc). It doesn’t have any social cruft or AI assistants or ML companions.
I was also a Feedly user when I decided to try Feedbin, and I immediately noticed how much faster fetching the feeds was on Feedbin. I also like to have my email newsletters in same place (forward them to a Feedbin-provided email address), and I can have filters to mark things like sponsored posts and podcast show notes as read automatically, basically like mute filters.
Feedly premium tier costs pretty much the same, and I wonder how well it would stack against Feedbin. There’s also Inoreader which I think offers pretty similar feature set for a pretty similar price.
Feedly free tier is excellent, and you can work around many of its shortcomings by using an RSS reader app. For example, Feedly free doesn’t offer full text articles, but I can extract the full text with Reeder/NetNewsWire/etc on the client-side. If you really don’t care about speed, mute filters, or reading newsletters in your RSS reader, then Feedly free tier is already more than enough.
Right now I have my own tool (https://github.com/livelace/gosquito) for data gathering from different sources. One way to use it - just put news into mail system (I'm Zimbra user - https://paste.pics/7f48e9ca655de96f2160ecbff474bbca, and use internal search engine heavily).
After going through Google Reader, Feedly, Newsblur and QuiteRSS, I've finally settled on Newsboat, as I can really customize it to my needs, debug it and even integrate custom html to rss generators.
For example, ebay has recently recently stopped supporting RSS through search results (an '_rss=1' query string was supported for over 10 years), and while there are some workaround such as using different search endpoint where the RSS has not been deprecated yet, with Newsboat, I was able to write a custom filter to extract RSS with just few lines of code: https://github.com/almog/newsboat-ebay2rss-filter
Or if you want to self host: https://miniflux.app/