The hyprland issues I’m aware of, but what’s the issue with suckless?
hoppolito@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
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.
chrisbit@leminal.space 16 hours ago
hoppolito@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
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.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
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.
jonne@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
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 17 hours ago
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 16 hours ago
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 16 hours ago
reddit still has rss feeds. You have to use the old reddit links, like <#^https://old.reddit.com/r/science.rss>
mbirth@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Also: rss-bridge.org
rtxn@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You are literally on Lemmy. The project owner’s views are well-known.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
They’re the exact opposite of a fascist…
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 16 hours ago
Tankies are fascists with left wing aesthetics.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s sometimes called red fascism.
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Ah yes, the famous communist fascist… You liberals are just insane.
Scirocco@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
But just* as extremist…
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 16 hours ago
Political “extremity” can’t be measured objectively.
Zak@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
hoppolito@mander.xyz 14 hours 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.