Mastodawn

leyrer (@[email protected])

Tiny Tiny RSS is finally dead. Good riddance. We do not need FOSS maintained by right wing idiots. https://community.tt-rss.org/t/the-end-of-tt-rss-org/7164/2

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hoppolito Oct 7

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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rtxn Oct 7

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

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hoppolito

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.