Overview
NewsBlur is a personal and social news reader that lets users subscribe to RSS feeds and train it with likes/dislikes to surface relevant stories. It supports social features such as shared blurblog stories and commenting, and provides native iOS and Android apps. The full stack can be self-hosted using Docker Compose, though it involves multiple services including MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
Where it falls short of Feedly
- Self-hosting is complex: requires MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Celery workers
- Documentation for self-hosted setup is sparse compared to the hosted version
- Social blurblog network only active on the official hosted instance
- Story training model is less sophisticated than modern ML-based feed ranking in Feedly Pro
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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