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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I don't get how Flipboard is even a product when opening any browser gives you a wall of aggregated news stories unless you explicitly set it not to. Any website dedicated to that in 2023 is like a factory that just sucks in air and blows it out the other side.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I often think this. I use a mix of reeder, feedly, vore, instapaper to see what I like.

However I look at my parents and they’ll use Apple News or whatever news source they trust in a browser.

Flipboard is used because it makes it easy for people to find aggregated information. What’s easier than something that already does the aggregation for you?

Often we take for granted things we consider to be normal. I would think everyone has uBlock Origin installed (i’ve used it for years) or something similar, but this is clearly not the case.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

i can see how that sounded! it’s a lightweight, browser-based rss reader.

i made a short script that scrapes my own feed and sends an email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Classic conversation starter!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, Vore. That awesome song by the British metalcore band Sleep Token.

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