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:
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Tumblr example: https://whereiseefashion.tumblr.com/rss
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Youtube/invidious example: https://invidious.snopyta.org/feed/channel/UCQYcCfKYfYMcuCsem8z5CyQ
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Reddit example: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanesejazz/.rss
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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
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.