It’s a 10 minute read when it should probably be a 2 minute read, likely due to LLMs fluffing it up (I got that vibe from skimming it). But what do you all think, is there anything in here that would compel you to switch from your current VPN solution to this?

One of my favorite self hosted services is https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss since it allows me to get content from high traffic sites but in a very truncated and digestible way. Particularly, my favorite feature is how it can send only the N most popular posts each day (with a day lag, of course).

I’m looking for a more generic solution that does something like this but for arbitrary RSS feeds.

For example, if I want to subscribe to a super busy feed but I only want to get 2 posts randomly selected each day.

I’m totally willing to achieve this without a full blown extra proxy. If there are some RSS clients or a FreshRSS extension that can do something like that, for example.

Otherwise, I may just try to extend/fork upvote-rss’s functionality for this 😅