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The current situation at Twitter has made me want to go back to the good-old-days of RSS, I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I'm rusty, though. What's the best Mac desktop RSS client these days?
I'd also like to shout out
https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/
It'd be pretty cool to have an ecosystem where you could
```
$ packagemanger init my-site password
$ hostOfChoice deploy
```
Go to the url, auth yourself, then have a list of "plugins" that act as a ~cms for formats like the ones above
Edit: Could you at least tell me why you're downvoting
I was a huge fan of RSS for a long time but stopped using it. I found that when I added in multiple feeds of my interests, My feed was littered with the same stories and sometimes even the same content. Also, much of the content had the same ads that were on the sites. So at that point, it was easier to just visit the sites with an ad blocker on.
To be fair, this is a big problem everywhere, not just with RSS. Especially on Twitter, and even here with dupes on HN.
It's more of a problem though if you're following a bunch of "news" feeds, as opposed to, say, technical blogs with original content.
I use Inoreader. Terrific app. With RSS I am able to add feeds of websites which normally have a paywall.
I'd like to bookmark interesting long reads for later to Pocket from newsboat, but also resurface them as an RSS feed, but it seems a little awkward.
I'm kind of a JSON maximalist because I find it really simple and haven't put too much thought into it. I'd also like to shout out https://www.jsonfeed.org/ https://jsonresume.org/ https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/ https://geojson.org/ It'd be pretty cool to have an ecosystem where you could ``` $ packagemanger init my-site password $ hostOfChoice deploy ``` Go to the url, auth yourself, then have a l…
Feeder is a great GPL RSS reader for Android. Save you some time fumbling through the Google Play cess pool. Not affiliated just a happy user. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...
I just don’t understand the obsession with privacy at all cost. What has anyone actually had happen to them as a result of their Reddit or YouTube browsing history? This just seems like reverse voyeurism, and while that’s fine, it’s odd to assume anyone else shares that fetish with you.
The data being collected is valuable, evidenced by the fact that an entire industry exists for it. It is collected without the users' consent (beyond the sham of "by using this website you agree to our terms" - by the way, legally speaking individuals cannot agree to give up their rights). The users are not compensated for the valuable information that is harvested from them.
Lastly, many online service providers are cavalier with the security of this data. It is freely shared with hostile state actors (not necessarily western ones), predatory commercial third parties (spammers), and actual criminals. Due to lax security, criminals often gain access to this data and use it for identity theft, phishing and other fraud. People compile it in "social media background check" databases which exposes individuals, without their consent, to stalkers.
There's not enough space in a comment to go over every single instance of privacy violations leading to serious consequences for users, such as those you claim do not exist, so to anyone interested I would recommend doing a web search on privacy related topics.