After some thinking about the current state of social media and mass email lists, RSS came to mind, and it's actually a much better alternative for privacy.
No data collection, no feed manipulation, no email newsletters.
@jrswab here's the link for feeder on play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsenseapps.feeder.play
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I love RSS. I am maintaining #Newspipe (https://gitlab.com/newspipe/newspipe) since 9 years. So far I've collected something like 250,000 articles ;-)
@cedricbonhomme So the gitlab site is the latest code? Also, JARR == #newspipe ?
I am thinking about hosting an instance for me with sqlite on nearlyfreespeech.net and wondered what was the latest in docs and code.
@PresGas yes, latest code is on GitLab. JARR is the previous name.
@cedricbonhomme Thanks for the quick reply! Is it safe to assume that sqlite would allow multiple users? I think I would have just me as the user, but want to log in to mark read, etc.
@PresGas yes, multiple users won't be a limit for SQLite.
Let me know if you have a problem.
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YO, yes!
This week I unsubscribed from so many email newsletters and switched to a site's RSS feed instead. It feels great.
@albijuli Nice! I am building up my RSS as well and as for email I am much more picky. I had to abandon my gmail account because its too far gone.
Plus I like privacy 🤓
@barronbig Got a link to more information? Sounds interesting.
We could copy the rss raw and convert to this. I got this inspired and looking into the server program for such conversion.
https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-to-json-converter.html#ad-output
We could apply modules to extract the rss feeds via developing respective modules using node.js
um I just use Feedly? (I'm still not over GReader.)
It hasn't happened in a while, but occasionally I'd get the odd Web site that just won't RSS right and I'd have to get creative, but that was the extent of my tweaking.
@jrswab I'm a huge fan of RSS. Still the best way to consume content without algorithmic shenanigans!