Post this is right-leaning communities. Right-wing thought leaders are really getting hammered by major platforms right now and they could really drive adoption if they take up your product.
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#82What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which could work if the articles have a somewhat permissive license, I guess.
It's good for people with content that doesn't align with the values of employees of major platforms e.g right wing publishers, the porn publishers of Tumblr etc. Such people are always at risk of deplatforming and it's nice for their content to be spread out all over the web to prevent that risk.
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#83What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?
I use BazQux. Super simple interface and it has search (Feedly didn't back when I picked after the Google Reader debacle, and its interface is a bit bloated to me).
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#84What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?
Self hosted https://freshrss.org/ has been pleasing me for years now. No troubles at all, even when updating. Uses SQLite, which is awesome when migrating.
Used https://tt-rss.org/ before, but had so much trouble after updates. Hit and miss.
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#85What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?
For aggregation I used feedbin.me and now Feedly after I pruned subscription services.
For reading the Reeder app (iOS, Mac)
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#86What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?
feed2exec is pretty useful:
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine because go compiles to an actual native binary, whilst electron wraps a browser and a chunk of JavaScript in a zip file. You can’t really say “go gets away with it” as though these languages are doing the same thing.
You're right. My observation was just that the discussions often don't go much deeper than "look at this big binary", so I was surprised to find none of that here.
The next time you notice a particular clichéd complaint missing from a thread, it might be better to not comment on its absence unless you actually want to have the same discussion all over again.
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#88What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?
I used to send all the RSS articles to my mail box. Integrated synchronization between devices, mark as read, starring, categorizing, search... All it needs is a script that runs somewhere, it's the simplest one you can self host (provided you already have a mail box)
I don't use it anymore because I don't do RSS anymore. I found the constant browsing to be a bit of a desperate situation, the same way people constantly browse their Facebook account. I'd rather stumble upon a nice article.
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#89It's interesting that none of the comments so far complain about the size of the binary (13MB!). Nodejs and Electron projects get flak for this all the time, but Go somehow gets away with it.
I could definitely stand to strip the binary (saves about 2M), but the main issue is that (1) it's statically linked and (2) I actually pull in a surprising amount of dependencies for a ~100 line program. It uses an template parser & renderer; an HTML cleaner; a time formatter; an RSS/Atom parser; TCP, HTTP, and XML implementations; and extra handling for Unicode. Even then, 11M is a bit excessive. However, the compa…
While it could and should be slimmed down, I agree that the comparison to electron makes little sense.
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#90What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?
I'm a lifetime subscriber to Feedly ( https://feedly.com ) which has behaved sanely since I joined and claims to have mobile apps but I'm not the target audience for reading blogs on my phone. There are also quite a few self-hosted options, the most famous one that springs to mind is TinyTinyRSS ( https://tt-rss.org/ ) but I'm sure there are folks who have more experience with any alternatives https://alternativeto.n…
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