
Google News, Apple News, and other Big Tech news aggregators have a major influence on the public conversation. Their huge user base and use of secretive algorithms allow them to put a thumb on the scale by deciding which stories are promoted to hundreds of millions of people and which are hidden from public view.
These aggregators are also data-harvesting machines that allow powerful tech giants to monitor users' news subscriptions and consumption habits and combine this data with the troves of other user information that they hold.
FreshRSS is a private, self-hosted alternative to Big Tech News aggregators that allows users to curate, customize, and control their news feeds, without third-party interference, by leveraging the power of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) — an open, interoperable web feed format. This format allows creators and publishers to generate feeds that are free from third-party restrictions and allows readers, viewers, and listeners to subscribe to and manage these feeds directly, without being beholden to Big Tech.
FreshRSS users simply add RSS feeds from the sources that they want to follow and use the numerous customization options that are available to organize and refine their feeds. FreshRSS will then do the rest by pulling in all the latest content from these sources and presenting it to users based on their preferences.
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