ANAndySylvester01·Dec 23, 2022
I use River5 (https://github.com/scripting/river5), and pipe the output to a web app (https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/).
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A river-of-news RSS aggregator in JS running in Node.
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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10 sourcesI think what you want is a "Planet" set up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) or maybe something like River5? https://github.com/scripting/river5
In Curated list of personal blogs> A feed is a set of algorithmically generated content provided to the user without explicit input.
Uhhhhhhhhhhh no? Wrong & harmful, out of the gate. Feeds derive from "RSS Feed", which are non algorithmically generated: they are each blog's, person's or site's semi-realtime "feed" of their individual content. They are not customized algorithmic content. Web feeds[1] are feeds of web sites.
There's some ok ideas in this article, but the very beginning is a hard-stop "no", wrong, incorrect. It uses an incorrect definition that dooms an idea (feeds) much older than what the article is scolding.
Feeds are wonderful things that allow users & their user agents to create views however the user wants. What the author is talking about is something different. Polluting the idea of the feed by associating it with this Big Tech walled-garden "perso
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nal feed" or what-not does injury to the remedy, hurts the chances of real actual & good feeds being able to counter-act the social-network-monopoly "feed"/ween that big tech has us on. This article is harmful.
If you want to talk about the consumer point of view, of someone consuming feeds, a bunch of RSS feeds when combined together forms a "river"[2]. That, too, is non-algorithmic, is an in-temporal-order view of all the feeds.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed
[2] https://github.com/scripting/river5
Isn't this what Dave's River pieces are about, e.g. https://github.com/scripting/river5 ?
In Preparing for 25 YearsHow is this any different than Dave Winer's River of News which has been around for over five years?
https://github.com/scripting/river5
In Show HN: Journali.sm, a Newsfeed for NewsIf I just want to catch up, there're River5[1] and NewsBoat[2], or build-your-own-aggregator apps. The latter is a console app with a UI like Vim's; I like its fast filtering with '/'. The downside of apps is there's no grooming in comments.
[1] https://github.com/scripting/river5
[2] https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
In Stop Reading News (2013)River5 RSS aggregator written by Dave Winer
1 points · Open discussionAlso here's a link to the repo..
https://github.com/scripting/river5
Dave
In Introducing River5BTW, for people having trouble getting through to my blog (sorry if you are) here's a link to the GitHub repo.
https://github.com/scripting/river5
Dave
In Introducing River5River5: A river-of-news RSS aggregator in JavaScript running in Node
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