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FreshRSS

Full-featured RSS aggregator

provisional — pending verificationAGPL-3.0self-hostable

Arete score

4.5 / 5

Autonomy5

Return4

Efficiency4

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

FreshRSS is listed in reading, rss & e-books because it competes on utility: full-featured rss aggregator. It's community-maintained open source: the incentive is the tool itself. Licensed AGPL-3.0; pricing: free. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: AGPL-3.0
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Community OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: Feedly
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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