An RSS or news reader is an app or service that lets you read news and blog articles from various sources in one central place, without having to visit each website individually. You simply subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite sites, and new articles automatically appear in your feed.
This is better than consuming news via Facebook, for example, because you get unfiltered, chronologically sorted content directly from the sources – without an algorithm deciding what you see. This way, you avoid filter bubbles, ads, and manipulative trends that often distort the view of relevant news on social networks. Plus, personal posts don’t get mixed up with news.
My recommendation: Feedly.com. Feedly is free, works in the browser and as a mobile app, has only a single ad block, and I’ve been using it for years. And if I ever want to switch, it’s very easy to do so.
Getting started with Feedly is really simple:
Sign Up
Open Feedly.com and create an account:


Then login via Google (which I did, to just avoid another password) or create an account via email/password:

Afterwards assign a name to your profile:

The registration is complete! Now the news sources are added.
Adding Sources
In the main section, for example, search for “franzgraf.de” and then click on “Follow”.
Feedly organizes the sources in folders, so click on “New Folder” …


Done!
Additional Sources
The news items are listed at the top under “Today”.
New sources can be added to the small (RSS) symbol on the left:

Here you can add for example:
- https://www.locked.de/feed/ (my IT Blog)
- https://mastodon.social/@hikingdude.rss (my Posts at Mastodon, and you don’t even need an account there!)
Mobile Apps
You can use Feedly on your cell phone via the corresponding app.
Sources, read articles and saved articles are automatically synchronized.