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.
Fluent Reader would be perfect if it could start on log on and run in the background, but the dev seems to not care about that so…
Just paste a shortcut inside the startup folder? Type shell:startup in the explorer address bar.