I add rss feeds to a new iftt recipe and send new posts to an emailaddress that ends up in my mailbox. In the mailclient I'm using a filter to automatically move these emails to a separate folder. This is as close to Google reader as I could get and it's working quite well.

I use NetVibes - I jumped to it when iGoogle shut down: https://www.netvibes.com

I disabled retweets for every user I follow and it helped a lot. Now my twitter feed looks like a proper news feed.

There are a variety of RSS readers for each platform, is there something specific you're looking for?

Do people still use RSS readers? Honestly curious. I thought that was a thing from the past.

Well... no real alternative as many see it. How else can you get updates\aggregate articles from the blogs you want to follow?

>I thought that was a thing from the past

Just like I can't understand how Facebook or something similar can be such a problem for people. Always though that you just keep it to stay in touch (in other words have their contacts info) with some people you met over the time.

Yes, they do, and in fact that's what Google Reader was.

RSS for blog. Telegram thematic channels for everything else.