RSS has been really great for me over the last year or so (when I got back into it). I tried Feedly, and then Inoreader. I was not willing to pay for either and ended up trying out the two popular self-hosted options: ttrss (tiny tiny rss) and Miniflux. Stuck with Miniflux for its simplicity. Using the Fever API with Reeder on my Mac and Readably on my Android.
My thing with self hosting is that I'm using a shared plan. I currently have over 500 feeds, and I don't think they'd be all that happy about it if well... um... I decided to use RSS on their servers.
