"RSS just needed people to reject the big-company hype" is why Im building my own reader. RSS was never the problem; it's the stuff around it: feeds truncated to a teaser, blogs dying and taking their archives with them, cloud readers logging everything you open.
I'm building Cove (https://covereader.app), a native Mac app that works as a permanent local archive. Excerpt-only feeds get the full article fetched and extracted on-device in an offline WebView, stored LZFSE-compressed. It can also read articles aloud with streaming TTS that runs entirely locally, so nothing that you read leaves the machine. No account, no servers.
Caveats: Mac-only, no sync yet, will be one-time purchase at 1.0 (beta is free now).
I'm building Cove (https://covereader.app), a native Mac app that works as a permanent local archive. Excerpt-only feeds get the full article fetched and extracted on-device in an offline WebView, stored LZFSE-compressed. It can also read articles aloud with streaming TTS that runs entirely locally, so nothing that you read leaves the machine. No account, no servers.
Caveats: Mac-only, no sync yet, will be one-time purchase at 1.0 (beta is free now).