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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (29 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 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

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    They're the exact opposite of a fascist...

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Tankies are fascists with left wing aesthetics.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is the owner a tankie? (stalin justifier) I thought they were just communists, many of whom I know actually hate stalin.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't know which label is the most accurate, but he supports Putin's war, which lands him in the "shitbag" category. Being technically not fascist does not negate supporting the military invasion of a sovereign country, the ethnic cleansing of its people, and the rape, murder, and torture committed by the invaders.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ah yes, the famous communist fascist... You liberals are just insane.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But just* as extremist.....

    • Approximately. How is this sort of thing measured objectively?
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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    That's true but not useful.

    It's probably better to describe both ideologies as extreme-authoritarian or totalitarian. They're about equally undesirable; when someone has a boot on your throat, it doesn't matter much whether it's the right boot or the left boot.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I'm another conflicted person on this. I ran Tiny for years, so I never hated it. But it had so many updates that assumed that I'd know in advance to update something on the system (PHP libraries, database schema, etc.), and then putting the git repository behind Cloudflare led to a cycle of notifications that I needed an update and then waiting for Brigadoon to reemerge so that I could pull the latest source. And any time that I needed to look for a solution to a problem, reading through the forums made me regret the choice a tiny bit more.

    It's reasonable software, but I ended up moving to Fresh RSS on an in-house server, and that has gone better, but I hope that the Tiny community pulls together something better to keep the space diverse.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    For anyone looking for a simple rss-to-email digest I recommend this service: https://pico.sh/feeds

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't know the ideology of 99.9% of the developers of the software I use. I don't want to know it. The license is all I care about.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's like saying:

    I don't care about morality, I only care about legality.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I'm not going to verify all the maintainers of the software I use is vegan, believes in climate change, and left. While I believe the causes are just and important, not every moment is a time to align values and divide.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    No, that's not similar at all. If you have to stop to consider the political opinions of everyone involved in anything you ever do, buy, use... You'll never end up using anything. Do you actually mean I cannot enjoy old art done in the past because the ones creating it probably had some shitty ideals, opinions or morals?

    A shitty person can do something good. Accepting something good from a shitty person doesn't mean we need to share or support everything about that person. You can criticize one aspect of something and accept the good of the same thing. The world is not so black and white.

    Edit: mind you, there's a case to be made when supporting something good means providing indirect support to something bad. But that is far from accepting you will use software from people with shitty ideas.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Wow I had no idea this drama even existed??? Uhhh anyways use RSSHub it's incredibly powerful. You feel like the Silver Surfer.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago