And how do you optimize your workflow based on the feeds? Extra thanks if you are working as an academic researcher gathering feeds from different journals
When GReader died, I switched to Feedly for a bit, but then found InoReader and have stuck with them since. It's got the most options for customization/organization and filters/rules that I need and the Android app is great.
I self-host FreshRSS. I'm pretty happy with it. It works well and you can add extensions to customize it if you need something particular. And I use the browser extension so I get notifications for new articles.
I used to use Feedly before. It was pretty alright, but I got annoyed by just how many things you needed to pay for
I use Elfeed for Emacs, as just one small part of Emacs's slow conquest of other programs on my computer. Before that, I used Liferea, which is a nice standalone feed reader.
Elfeed lets me assign each feed in my list different tags, so I can do basic filtering for what I want to read at any given time. I generally avoid subscribing to any high-density feeds like news sites. I prefer to have maybe a dozen or so links per day that definitely interest me.
I use morss.it to fetch the full text from feeds that only provide a brief summary.
I spent so much time trying to find a good reader. Nothing quite scratched that itch I have for google news but less shit. Eventually I came across Artifact. Not an rss reader but it's the best news app I've come across.
I use inoreader, and I really enjoy it. I'm an academic researcher, but I don't use RSS feeds for reading papers as what I'm studying is generally very specific.
FreshRSS on my raspberry pi. I admittedly don't have a super good way to optimize my workflow regarding journals. I added Nature and intended to add more, including more specialized journals for my field, but its feed alone proved to be about as much as I could keep up with. If you're in medical or life sciences, you could try adding feeds based on PubMed searches (there's a "Create RSS" button under the search bar on the results page); you'll get a feed of new papers that match your search terms. I don't know what resources like PubMed there are for other fields and what they might offer in this regard, though.
I've been a Feedly user ever since Google Reader shut down. For me, the ability to sync feeds and progress among devices is a deal breaker, and I have become pretty partial to the app's swipe to mark as read gesture.
After reading this thread, I may have to give NextCloud News or FreshRSS a try when I'm up for it.
I use Feedbro for Firefox (also available for Chrome). It allows you to filter out items based on their content (supports regex), highlight keywords when viewing items, get desktop notifications for new items in specific feeds, and more.
Im already using Thunderbird for my emails but havent tried it for RSS. Do you know whether the overhaul of Thunderbird will also change the RSS part, or just the email part?