When Google reader shut down, I moved to feedly for like a week. Then I started getting anxiety that feedly would shut down too. Because if google could kill off a product i relied on, anyone could. And that got me into self hosting and running my own services.

ttrss was basically my first self hosted thing almost a decade ago. It was great. And then it turned out the guy running it was a bit not pleasant, and I didn't want to support that. So I recently migrated to freshRSS. Both work great, are open source and self hostable.

And feedly hasn't shut down yet (probably just to spite me). So yeah, tons of options for RSS.

Having self-hosted for a long time, I find it's getting easier in a lot of ways what with Docker and all.

I'm starting to wonder where "Sandstorm 2.0" is. Sandstorm, for those who don't know, was basically an attempt to make self hosting really viable, but was tragically ahead of its time because it predated Docker. So they burned tons of effort on sandboxing, and wrapping existing applications into their sandbox, and it was just too hard to port things into their world to get very many applications running.

It seems like a project that would do that in terms of docker-compose files could be created for much less effort, and maybe not quite all the pretty-shiny they had. But as I'm struggling right now a bit to bring up a Bitwarden server, there's still pain around setting up the forwards properly and getting the Let's Encrypt certificate. Something that managed all this better wouldn't be too hard, and could just be slammed up on a small AWS instance or something would be easy. (Branching out to other services over time or something.) Plus setting up proper backups would be nice. We're so, so much closer to being able to do this nowadays than we used to be... for instance, S3 has also become a near universal API, so backups using it have gotten to be easy but they can still be done without vendor lockin.

Then it would be really easy to self-host an RSS reader or something.

I'm hoping this will either prompt someone to consider this project, or prompt someone to tell me "It already exists, go here and here and run this docker command to install it."

I've taken the self hosting journey to learn tons about docker, and kubernetes. (Disclaimer: Kubernetes is overkill for self hosting). Not because it was the easiest, but because it was a great way to learn about a technology that has benefited me in my job.

Nowadays, for me at least, it IS really easy to self-host anything. Get the docker image, add a deployment to my k8s cluster. Ship it. Getting to this point was less simple.

Also take a look at Cloudron.io. It's not open source, sadly (source is available though), but it's basically what you describe.

In terms of automating things like handling certs for you, I'd say Caddy or even my own boringproxy.

I use Dokku for that (I can share my Bitwarden repo if you want, the entire thing is four lines or something). I also made https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster for things that weren't so "web server -> app -> database" and love it.

Caprover is nice, Dokku and ledokku are OK too although not as finished maybe for the latter (GUI)

I think that's the most similar think you will find to a Sandstorm 2.0 running on docker

Sandstorm lives, by the way - I host my TTRSS instance on my Sandstorm server. It's gotten a bit more active again lately. :)

Google has shut down a bunch of popular services: https://killedbygoogle.com/

I wouldn't use them as a standard for keeping services up.

I'm aware. but also, they aren't the only company to shut down services. They do it more often and more flippantly than other companies, but other companies still do it from time to time. My response to the situation was drastic overkill, but now I get to rely on myself and I have a hobby I enjoy, rather than having to worry about what other companies decide to do with my data.

Same here. I still use it. Works fine with me, but then, I'm a bit old fashioned in that twitter/facebook/other social media isn't my news source.

I’m using NetNewsWire which works great but is iOS and Mac only. I’ve considered Feedly, but I would have to do the pro plan because of the cap on number of feeds. I haven’t switched because I have a hard time justifying the cost. I would rather that money go to the people creating the content.

still? It's not like there's something better out there

Like what?

I'm unaware of other ways to get consistent listings of new content at various sites in a machine readable format.

I agree, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. There's nothing like RSS

Ah, thanks, couldn't see your grin through the font I'm using.