There exists a web to consume outside of the Big Four of social media. Here is my process of figuring out how to consume it.
July 8th, 2025
The PWA for miniflux is not very well designed and a little slow. I want to use an app that makes me feel good. REALLY dislike the idea of paying a monthly subscription for a reading app but it might be my only option. I’m trying Reader from Readwise for a month, after which I’ll try inoreader for another, and then pick between the two.
Exporting your feeds from miniflux will preserve feed categories, yay! It will not preserve read/unread states for articles, boo.
~ April 2025
Focus Reader’s UI feel glitchy + It kept unsyncing articles I had already read. I suspect there was an issue with how it was talking to miniflux. I didn’t spend too much time debugging it; just decided to use the PWA for miniflux on mobile instead.
~ late February 2025
After trying a bunch of different feed readers I’ve settled on Focus Reader for android. Not ideal but I suppose it will get the job done.
~ early February 2025
Using a friend’s miniflux instance, seems reasonable. Moved most newsletters from email to rss via kill-the-newsletter. Maybe now I will actually read them.
I just exported all of my data from Goodreads to Storygraph. Here’s my profile, send me a friendo!
The importer ported over all my shelves well, and all my reviews etc. But I mostly use goodreads as one of my few remaining forms of social media. I see what friends (especially long distance friends) are reading, text them about it, and am able to exchange conversations around ideas instead of events or people. Since there isn’t exactly a “friend importer” on storygraph, I’m going to have to slowly look people up and nudge them over.