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[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 54 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm always a little torn on projects like this.

On the one hand, I know a few people who have hosted tt-rss and the software worked very well for them and their needs.

On the other hand, software whose maintainers have fascist tendencies, or are at best super edge-lords, and which maintains a culture in the developers and community that's just super toxic is not something I ever wish to support or be associated with.

I have similar feelings on the hyperland project, or suckless software. What i have personally settled on is to not touch the software myself, and give a slight disclaimer when recommending it to others.

I suppose unmaintained can be added to the disclaimer for this one now. At least we have a plethora of very nice alternatives in the rss space with projects like freshrss, miniflux, and nextcloud news.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You are literally on Lemmy. The project owner's views are well-known.

[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

Sure, no argument with that - although I am happy piefed is rising as an alternative.

I did not intend to claim moral superiority or any absolutes, which is, again, why I just tend to also provide a small disclaimer while recommending that kind of software.

It's more about giving a small preface to people I care about should they ever end up intending to contribute to certain projects. I don't think that's an unreasonable stance to take. But if you think it is and weren't just doing a social media zinger let me know.

[–] Ohh@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did not know? Is it a specific instances or lemmy the software?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Lemmy backend, the default web frontend, the Jerboa app, and the lemmy.ml instance are all owned by the same person.

[–] Ohh@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Thx... Couldnt really find anything about him - other than "anti human rights" - without context or explanation. But I did find his own post describing his motivations as (my paraphrasing) leftish anti establishment.. i am fine with that. I'm even in support. But again - choose your instance...

https://lemmy.ml/post/70319

(The only problem is lemmy hardcoded slur words... But I couldn't find a list of those slurs, so difficult to have an opinion about specifically. And in any case, if somebody wants to create the best social software on the planet, and hardcode banning of the word 'snuffle' into to the platform, because they have issues with that word being used, thats more than ok. That's extremely cool).

Go Lemmy and go dessalines - you rock I believe.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to run it for a while (it might actually still be running, I'd need to check my VPS and delete it if it is), but I feel like RSS readers kind of got overtaken by Reddit (and Lemmy). I tried going back to it again a few times, but the lack of comments felt off after having experienced Reddit.

[–] sk@utsukta.org 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The best use case for RSS for me is getting updates from journals and github releases. Also subscribing to youtube channels feeds is convenient since i dont have to visit their website regularly and can just watch the channels that im interested in.

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Until reddit shut off the RSS feeds, Geddit (Android app RSS reader for reddit) was very useful to me.

Allowed following of niche/particular subs without drama

Unfortunately, many of those closely focused, well moderated and useful communities continue to exist only on reddit

[–] sk@utsukta.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

reddit still has rss feeds. You have to use the old reddit links, like <#^https://old.reddit.com/r/science.rss>

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Interesting. Apparently the Geddit app has been abandoned/unmaintained since 2 years ... Huh

[–] chrisbit@leminal.space 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The hyprland issues I'm aware of, but what's the issue with suckless?

[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a little older, so I don't have an extensive recollection. Things I have saved are the Poettering tweet pointing out their hostname being 'Wolfsschanze', doing their own torch march just after Unite the Right Charlottesville happened, and the expected anti-sjw, cultural marxism rhetoric to go along with it.

It's a case of no one individual instance being drastic (well, perhaps except for Wolfschanze), but coming together to form a picture which I firmly file into icky-politics.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago
[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I vaguely remember something about some torchlit march (in Bavaria?) and people accusing suckless devs of being Nazis. Also their entire concept is just kind of elitist.

Note that I have no idea if the Nazi claims are true or not.

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

I really don't understand why a March with torchs classifies them as fascists. It is very common here in the italian alps, that are very leftwing. They also have literally zero nazi symbols.