RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.
I’ve been using Nextcloud News with my Nextcloud provider, works pretty well.
I’ve tried to self host next cloud but it’s just feels too bloated :(. I’m running it on a pretty solid machine too, not like it’s a raspberry pi but everything just feels sluggish.