No algorithms, no filtering, a protocol not a platform. Libre and gratis. Subscribe to what you want.

Install an RSS reader on your operating system and bang a load of feeds into it. It'll take you ten minutes.

Maybe install QuiteRSS, it's libre: https://quiterss.org/en/download

Lots of normie sites have RSS:

  • Tumblr example: https://whereiseefashion.tumblr.com/rss

  • Youtube/invidious example: https://invidious.snopyta.org/feed/channel/UCQYcCfKYfYMcuCsem8z5CyQ

  • Reddit example: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanesejazz/.rss

  • Twitter/Nitter example: https://nitter.cc/debbiebookchin/rss

SOME LEFTIE NEWS

  • http://geo.coop/rss.xml
  • https://workersparadise.org/feed
  • http://jineoloji.org/rss
  • https://itsgoingdown.org/feed
  • https://therealnews.com/feed
  • https://newsocialist.org.uk/rss
  • https://www.wsws.org/en/rss.xml
  • https://orinocotribune.com/feed
  • https://cosmonaut.blog/rss
  • https://newleftreview.org/feed
  • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/feed
  • https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/feed
  • https://libcom.org/rss.xml/feed
  • https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/feed
  • https://newrepublic.com/rss.xml
  • Slurry [any]
    ·
    4 years ago

    I installed QuiteRSS (Win 10) and subscribed to the Pussy Riot feed. However clicking the video ("On ABC...", also tried "We've seen authoritarian tendencies...") crashes the app. QuiteRSS also forgets all subscriptions after crashing. App also looks a bit shit (sorry).

    • mittens [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I did a quick google search and found this which looks pretty decent, but it's also an electron app which means it'll be a RAM hog, good news it's an electron app so it'll probably do whatever you expect a browser to do.

      • Slurry [any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Thanks! I tried the New Left Review. Fluent pulled the top paragraph but nothing else. Switched to "load full content", got an error screen ("memory parse error"). Switched to "webpage", got nothing :) However, the New Republic actually works! Can do text only, full content, and webpage. Some articles are still a bit janky on Load Full Content ("Parallax Ghazal", "So Far").

        Gonna see if it'll handle a HistoryMarche youtube sub, might actually switch if so

        Edit: So I found the magic line is

        https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

        which, with the channel IDs from Comment Picker (for HistoryMarche, that's UC8MX9ECowgDMTOnFTE8EUJw ), actually added the channel to Fluent! Nice. Though it needed to be full webpage, rather than Load Content. Which had the unfortunate side effect of reintroducing Google's pop-ups... and the ads. Usually caught by Firefox's Enhancer for YouTube add-on.

        • mittens [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          Damn that kind of sucks, I tried with current affairs and it actually works pretty great, I guess that kind of shit depends a lot on how the target webpage is loaded. I tried with a youtube feed link (though I'm pulling the feed directly from youtube like so: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[CHANNEL_ID]) and the results are a bit mediocre, though it does allow you to play youtube videos using the load webpage button. The real bummer is that it's optimized for windows, and it tries to open edge when I want to view stuff from a browser. Oh well.

          Oh you had already discovered all that youtube stuff on your own lol. If you can get mpv and youtube-dl working on windows, you can launch a standalone player with no ads, since they're loaded separately. If only you could customize the open externally button per url scheme to launch mpv when selecting a youtube link, then it'd be a really sweet youtube viewer. Alas.