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[–] 105 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I have a feeling this will be unceremoniously killed and forked into two different projects.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Huh, the connection was actually intentional, albeit definitely not for that reason

    Why "Tuvix"?

    Tuvix is named after a character from Star Trek: Voyager who was created by merging two individuals into one. The name came to mind when thinking about one of Tuvix's core features: merging multiple RSS sources into a new public feed. And who doesn't love a good Star Trek reference?

    We believe the best reading experience doesn't require sophisticated algorithms or endless personalization. It just requires giving you the tools to find and organize content you care about.

    https://tuvix.app/about/

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  • [+] 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago

    The devs aren't worried about Janeway?

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'd still like some algorithm in my RSS aggregator. One, that detects articles talking about the same thing and groups them.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    What’s the difference between this and say FreshRSS?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Same concept, different implementation. FreshRSS is a PHP app, in my opinion.. a little ugly, still super functional of course. I wanted to try to create something with a more modern UX, and try to appeal to not just the tech folks. FreshRSS still supports things I don't yet, like WebSub, but give me some time to catch up. I have the massive benefit of just starting much later when many awesome libraries and AI exist.

    I actually started this API in Go, and it was nearly complete before I started over entirely in Node. And I did that so that it could run in serverless environments. You can of course still run this in Docker Compose, but it's actually focused on Cloudflare deployments, where you can run this entirely for free.

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Is the selfhosted version able to also take email newsletters? I hate them and I'm using https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to turn them into RSS, but I wish I had an all in one solution.

    Also, is it fully FOSS or is it open core?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    AGPL v3. Take that as you may. I'm *open *to changing it. I just wanted to give the project a chance to thrive without someone just hosting it as a paid app and calling it a day. That makes it so that if anyone does want to create a commercial product from this, they would need to offer up the source. My monetization plans only extend to possibly offering an additional plan on the hosted version to help cover hosting costs (which right now are $10 a month and I am covering that, it may become $30 a month if this gets popular).

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    AGPL works for me. Good to know.

    I just avoid using "source available" and software that has artificially paywalled features, the most common paywalled feature is OIDC because most devs seem to think that it's a business only feature.

    I pay for Home Assist Cloud, because I want to support them, every feature is available if I wanted to self host it. I freaking love them.

    The only exception being Bitwarden, although they have paywalled features in their selfhosted builds I don't know of a better-for-me alternative. I could self-host Vaultwarden, but I pay for their subscription just because I want to support them.

    My point is, if it's justified, I'll pay. Otherwise, I'll keep using standalone RSS apps on my devices and just backup my OPML every once in a while.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago
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    My problem is finding the feeds lol

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 9 months ago

    Ya. I'm working on that too. And trying to keep in the spirit of not being biased or heavy on algorithms.

    My first step - A chrome/firefox extension. This is currently in review on the web store. This exposes RSS feeds on sites you visit to make it easier to subscribe to the places you already visit. This is especially great when you find a great blog on Reddit or Hacker News. https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Tuvix-Tricorder-Extension

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    The docs look so good. So does the app.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Nice - going to try this :)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    The project looks nice and RSS Aggregators are the way to go.

    I switched to a file based (cloud storage) syncing app like News Explorer a while ago. Sometimes less infrastructure involved is a blessing.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    FYI, a few typos in "3. Organize with Categories" first paragraph in the getting started tutorial/blog post.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Can we get a few screenshots or a demo acc?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    While I support the idea of using RSS readers to break free from algorithmic and/or AI curated feeds, I've mostly stopped bothering, since all the content that gets into the feeds has become algorithmic, AI slop.

    There's just no escaping it these days.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    While super fair and accurate, I take this as an opportunity to follow much smaller blogs. When I find a good post on Hacker News or stumble upon someone through my research, I now actively make a point to subscribe to their RSS.

    TBH my original motive was to find good sources of content to submit to Hacker News... but all the same.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    lol I started to reply, suggesting a recommendation feature to help find non-algorithmic tech feeds but then realized that's exactly how all this started.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 9 months ago

    😆 . It's a real problem though. So is prioritization. Algorithms aren't bad, dark patterns are. The main issue with any algorithm, even if fully open, it, by definition, has to be biased in some way. I'm going to save this problem for much further down the road, but for discovery, I took the first step on that.

    Tricorder! https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Tuvix-Tricorder-Extension

    I broke out the package that does the feed discovery in tuvix and publish it separately. Now you can use it as a chrome plugin to add a subscribe page to any website. It is currently pending review on the Chrome web store. I haven't yet submitted to Firefox or others.

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