kickscondor

You get it. <3

I get a good number of Github issues with people who want it to act like a normal reader. So there is good reason that most RSS readers act like an inbox. It's just a general expectation.

Fraidycat 2 is going to offer a desktop service you can use from mobile. It won’t be here till later in the year tho, since I’m busy with another project at the moment.

Extensions are nice because of the low effort to install and try out. But your point ain’t wrong.

Hallooo - this is my project. Glad to offer any help. Thanks for looking in.

Also having a connection issue with both Twitch and TikTok unfortunately right now. Will update here when I have it solved.

UPDATE: The TikTok and Twitch issue is resolved. No need to update the extension - picks up the change automatically.

RSS also strips out all of the styles. I personally like to see posts as they were intended.

Yeah - I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of these services. Along with commentpara.de for anonymous comments.

There’s an anon comment on this post: https://www.kickscondor.com/the-multiverse-diary along with the link to leave a comment. Static HTML!

Ok you’ve convinced me - thank you for taking the time to explain in detail! At least on Show HN posts, I now see that this is rude. Apologies to the original author and thank you for the helpful tone.

I agree that I'm stretching it here - personal directories are my personal niche and definitely something that I'm seeing everywhere - even in this little link-sharing tool.

But I figure that I'll put the thought out there and people can agree or disagree. Glad for you to voice your disagreement - I may need to tone it down.

Another great example of how miniature personal directories are experiencing a comeback.

* https://tray.club - like this, but allows subpages and notes areas.

* https://gossipsweb.net - pay $1 to be in this directory ('cozy web'-type vibe)

* https://terra.finzdani.net - personal directory

* https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ - another one

* https://href.cool/ - mine

But I love the simplicity of Multy - dump your links and click create. Great work.

Just a person - not a big deal. Although the site is different in many ways based on the protocol.

Blimey. Including the netcat commands in the feed. >chef's kiss<

I believe DNSLink works - I was able to get ipns://kickscondor.com/ working with a TXT record. Is that what you mean?

Beaker also supports regular web links - but Brave also supports Tor websites.

However, Beaker has its own extended web API and tooling. You can fork websites, edit them - and you can script this functionality. (For example, I have a wiki software in Beaker that will handle all the forking and editing behind the scenes - using Javascript to make it happen.)

You could say that Brave is a read-only HTML browser with wide support for decentralization protocols. While Beaker is a read-write HTML browser with its own protocol. And they both use the regular web as well.

Ok ok - check this out.

ipns://k51qzi5uqu5dlusethckbaq0kf1udrhaq99lvrd21krkbnjukthfbv3hu4wkk8/ [Brave] (edit: got ipns://kickscondor.com/ working.)

hyper://f8f860772e5e489beaf5c00390ab5b42703f8dd2a57d74e4d563433834208543/ [Beaker]

http://kickscofbk2xcp5g.onion/ [Tor]

https://kickscondor.com/ [Plain]

Needs a Gemini version.

A few things I built for Beaker:

Duxtape hyper://5b69209fc2dfb5eafb82e4031cd43c28ebc61e5cdd4dbdc48310bb62263f53e0/

Sneaky Wiki hyper://1c6d8c9e2bca71b63f5219d668b0886e4ee2814a818ad1ea179632f419ed29c4/

You can find a user list at https://userlist.beakerbrowser.com/

A minimalist version of that: https://legiblenews.com

This is cool! I have a similar game I play with friends called GUCHAT. Same game - nonsense words on a Scrabble board. But everyone has to approve your word. (And you do get a chance to defend the word if there is pushback.)

Neat to see the concept extended. And perhaps others out there are playing variations of this under different names...

I think there is a lack of imagination here.

Perhaps a "social graph" shouldn't belong to any company. The concept itself might be anti-privacy.

Perhaps it's time to move back to simpler things like OPML. (Which people seem more comfortable sharing freely - not sure if that's still a "social graph" tho.)

Perhaps specific relationship details shouldn't be housed in the social network - just the permission to follow.

Perhaps companies who house a "social graph" should be regulated - similar to what is done with medical data. It should be a toxic substance.

I just think we're a long way from doing this right and there are a lot of untried options - and I lack imagination as well.

Ok - next question then: why do browsers block self-signed certs? If Lets Encrypt now allows any domain to get a cert, what's the harm in a self-signed cert? Seems like a step up from plain HTTP.

Well - you could look at it as extending the browser (into a feed reader) rather than extending the current page.

I don't know. I mean, yes, I need 'blocked requests' and 'unlimited storage' for my extension (http://fraidyc.at/). However, at least I can give Safari users a taste of it - which could either:

* draw them into fuller platforms for using it. (or)

* pressure safari to support more of the standard.

Stepping stones.

New Directions is publishing a collection that has some ‘fragments’ that slipped through the cracks in English anthologies - this is one of them. Hard to believe it could happen, given how many of his novels are painstakingly assembled fragments.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/franz-k...

Or this newsletter along the same lines:

https://hnblogs.substack.com/

Oh I feel such a sense of progress just assigning bugs to myself. When I get around to writing a blog post about it, I certainly hope you will be there to upvote it, hombre f.

Hey thanks for this lovely pitch, goblin89. <3 all my goblin friends out there

Hey this is great. Post the link here if you like.

Well, yes - that's my second sentence.

Except:

- Most subreddits are hostile to self-promotion of Web stuff. If you're unknown, you're going to have to be socially involved there enough that people know your name. (Though I agree that small subs like /r/esp8266 are begging for self-made content.)

- Related: people don't know your name because it's in small gray text. You're just another comment.

- You need upvotes. A personal directory requires only one upvote.

- You need to be on-topic. Your work may not fit Reddit's categories.

- Reddit mods are generally more like forum mods than librarians.

- Agreevotes do not equal quality. I don't want to overstate this, but I like that I'm not seeing vote counts on personal directories.

Reddit is cool - but it has its own rules and its own culture that goes with it. I personally wouldn't call it 'the modern web directory'. I do think it's less hostile to the Web than many other platforms - and certain subs like /r/InternetIsBeautiful and /r/SpartanWeb do good work.

I'm not certain DMOZ is the way to go. The big centralized directories are too hard to keep current. They get slammed with submission. And you end up with so many editors that no one has a sense of ownership.

I mean - maybe it's possible. Perhaps a really focused team could figure it out. (The 'awesome' directories have kind of figured that out, by having specialized directory.) But these personal directories are really sweet because they don't have to cover a topic. They can just be a collection of good stuff, who knows what.

I don't quite follow - if low quality media is everywhere, doesn't high quality media stand out?

Perhaps you're saying that so much low quality media drowns out the high quality media - such that it can't be found. The ratio is off, right?