[image] Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader Score one for the fediverse. I literally just found out about this app through Taylor Lorenz . [TWITTER_Taylor Lorenz - Surf App] Given that it’s made by Flipboard, I’m guessing it’s n…

This app does look like it could be promising to people who like the [image] PurpleDime: idea of combing RSS, YouTube, Mastodon, and BlueSky and more in one elegant feed Additionally, I could see this app, or apps like it helping to promote broader adoption of activitypub and the fediverse. …

[image] seize: I don’t really want social features in my RSS feeds That’s fair. I’m not sure if I want it either if I’m honest. But I like the idea of having BlueSky and Mastodon feeds in the same place, as well as Twitter if it was possible. I have been looking for free RSS readers for both…

Wow. These look very interesting. I just remembered that I haven’t been able to use Twitter on mobile ever since I changed my password. I changed my password on Desktop, which automatically logged me out of the Android app, but when I tried to log back in, it wouldn’t let me. My phone doesn’t use …

I might be in the minority on this but these all-in-one apps just don’t appeal to me. I like my apps to have one specific purpose. I just want my RSS reader to be an RSS reader. If I want to, for example, watch a youtube video I will use Grayjay (probably a bad example in this case lol) or one of th…

All of those, YouTube, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc. can all be read/watched through RSS feeds already, so I don’t see the point. Am I missing something here?

The problem for my own use case, and I’m assuming others might be in a similar boat, is that the social services I want to read things from, are the social sites that I want to completely avoid going to directly. With the exception of YouTube, I personally am not very active on Mastodoon or Bluesky. …

Yeah alas it’s much harder from a developer perspective to do it for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok since they locked down their APIs and do not take kindly to web scraping. In contrast, at least Mastodon and Bluesky, partly due to their open source nature, do have APIs that are easy to acc…

I also don’t see the appeal. I suppose one function the app has is that you can share your customized feeds and explore others in a centralized place. Maybe they also include sources that don’t have RSS functionality? I’m not sure, I haven’t looked into it.

[image] ch0ccyra1n: Am I missing something here? It’s more about having the ability to follow other people’s lists, adding your posts and comments with hashtags to show up elsewhere in relevant feeds. If you go through this service’s offerings, it should be clear why it exists and how it’s d…

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Slightly different projects I have seen recently are https://flareapp.moe/ and https://fread.xyz/.

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