What’s the point? Aren’t most of them connected anyway? If not then the fragmentation is a real problem. I mean, who has the time or energy to click through dozens of websites which all serve the same or similar purpose?
What’s the point? Aren’t most of them connected anyway? If not then the fragmentation is a real problem. I mean, who has the time or energy to click through dozens of websites which all serve the same or similar purpose?
Those aren’t available to register anymore though, are they?
I don’t use any service that requires a phone number, which even does that anymore? I guess Facebook, Instagram, Twitter? That’s surely just to track you. It is very easy to spoof a mobile number, the regular old confirm security code per email works just as well. Or just do email register + 2fa with an authenticator app or passkey.
There are better ways to confirm someone is a human. If they would not just want to gather personal user data instead, which apparently is the case.
Why the fuck do they require my phone number to register? No thanks.
I’m trying to get back into using RSS but have noticed that all sites - for example tech news like The Verge - publish a shit ton of content daily nowadays.
How do you use these apps?
I added a few feeds and now have 300+ news every day that I need to sort through and 95% of them do not interest me. That was what was so great with Artifact, it did the sorting and learned my interests.
Are there separate curated feeds (similar to Artifact) to subscribe to or is it possible to filter by interest (keywords) in the RSS apps, like Netnewswire?
I don’t have time or the nerve scrolling through feeds with dozens or hundreds of posts a day, it’s a pretty awful user experience.
Some sites seem to have separate feeds for different themes but that’s also not very flexible.
For once a good app for news and articles appears, and within a year it is killed off because of “limited market opportunity.”
Urgh. I just HATE the modern internet.
But thanks for the alternatives list. Maybe something will catch on. Feeeed looks really cool.
Wow. If this isn’t a perfect example of the possible problems with federated networks I don’t know what is.
I’m still for it of course. But it has to be done right and this is far from that.
I see. Thanks for explaining. So which do you like the most so far?