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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by runxel »

goblin89 wrote: post #66

Fraidycat is the first piece of open-source software I noticed using Blue Oak Model License.

Nice! Didn't even know this exists.

I'm a bit confused, tho: the only real content is:

> This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible, while protecting contributors from liability.

This doesn't really sound unambiguous to me (but maybe that's because English is not my native language). As comparison from The Unlicense:

> Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

Somehow that's much clearer to me.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by m3at »

growt wrote: post #56
atroche wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're exploring an important space here. Good luck! Also, the video essay you made about this ( https://youtu.be/zgA4GzRsldI for anyone interested) is incredibly well-produced. I was expecting it to be someone mumbling over a screencast, but it's the total opposite.

Sadly something like that will be no longer possible in Europe when the new copyright directive becomes law. But on the other hand it probably never was :(

How so? Citation needed.

The website state: "Fraidycat doesn't communicate with a central server - unless your browser syncs Fraidycat's settings to a central server." So it seem fine by me.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by kickscondor »

minusSeven wrote: post #114

I am getting a networkError when attempting to fetch resource on any instagram links...

This is likely due to Firefox 'Strict' Tracking Protection. If you are okay turning it down to 'Standard', it will be fine. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/26

Not sure how to solve this. Firefox thinks Fraidycat is "calling home".

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by 3r8riacz »

h0l0cube wrote: post #98
kickscondor wrote: post #2

So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the for…

After leaving social media, I've been wanting something like this for a long time, and considered 'scratching my own itch', as you have. I settled on Feedly being good enough. It still isn't great: e.g. the Android widget is hopeless; I miss out on content because links sometimes don't refresh for days. I'm using the free option, so maybe the paid option is better, but it's free offering hasn't convinced me this is a…

Minimo (written in Go) is a nice, clean, minimal self-hostable RSS reader that I can recommend trying out, supports importing Feedly exports, too. Works as a progressive web app in fullscreen when added to your Android home screen, no need for a separate app.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by boznz »

"If only every network used RSS!" The big ones dont use RSS for a reason, they want you on the page to show adds. I expect they will start blocking access once you get above their radar. Good luck though.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by godDLL »

reggieband wrote: post #24

When the iPhone first allowed apps in an app store I had a conversation with another developer. We brainstormed an idea of an application that would allow you to aggregate all of your conversations with a person. Instead of opening the phone app, the messages app, facebook, twitter, etc. you would instead open the "Joe Smith" app and all of your conversations with that person across any medium would be aggregated in…

Yeah, forever I only wanted the BY-PERSON and BY-DATE functionality on my computing devices. BY-APP never was of any use for me, personally.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by heavyset_go »

godDLL wrote: post #118
reggieband wrote: post #24

When the iPhone first allowed apps in an app store I had a conversation with another developer. We brainstormed an idea of an application that would allow you to aggregate all of your conversations with a person. Instead of opening the phone app, the messages app, facebook, twitter, etc. you would instead open the "Joe Smith" app and all of your conversations with that person across any medium would be aggregated in…

Yeah, forever I only wanted the BY-PERSON and BY-DATE functionality on my computing devices. BY-APP never was of any use for me, personally.

WebOS in the Palm Pre days got this correct.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by kyleee »

kickscondor wrote: post #77
listic wrote: post #75

What does it mean there's no online sync for the binaries?

The extensions will sync your list of follows between computers. So if you are logged in to Chrome on your work computer and you subscribe to dezz.ie, it'll show up when you log in to Chrome at home.

Is there import/export functionality?
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