I have tested many RSS Readers, and there are some great ones, but Friendica also acts as one and does a fantastic job at. This was one of the features that convinced me to move form Mastodon to Friendica. The fact that I can follow anyone on the fediverse + any RSS feed....is just too good! I keep on saying this, but Friendica is really underrated. #tromlive
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in reply to Tio • •And I dream about one day Friendica integrating something like RSS-Bridge into it, as an addon, so that you can follow twitter, facebook, youtube, reddit, instagram and hundreds more RSS-Bridge sources that normally do not have any RSS feed. And to do so more automatically like copy-paste the URL of a Twitter account into your contacts and that's it, follow.
It will make it more appealing for people to move to the fediverse if they know they can still follow such accounts. I opened an issue here github.com/friendica/friendica… maybe someone could help bring that into fruition. :)
In any case, the current RSS/Atom support on Friendica is really good.
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Unknown parent • •Interesting because I found Mastodon to be very confusing, but I cannot say if it was faster or not than Friendica. It also depends what servers you use. Mastodon indeed has less features so you basically use it to send messages. While Friendica is more complex like you can format the text while composing and such.
Hubzilla yes I agree I tried it and I could not get used to it. By the way, I think Friendica may look a bit more complicated due to the theme. The older themes make it look very outdated and complicated, but the Frio one is a lot better. We also created our own theme and simplified it a bit.
Like replying here looks quite simple and clean:
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Unknown parent • • •curl --headdoesn't affect how the request is made by the backend, which is the same as regularcurlso this wouldn't work in that regard. We could use ETags where we are performing a lighter query to determine if the feed has changed even after the 15 minute cache has elapsed, but it requires clients to support ETag and 304 Not Modified HTTP response.Informa Pirata likes this.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •@Hypolite Petovan We carried out an empirical experimentation on rss feeds and we drew some conclusions.
The problem of the very heavy slowdown of the system was probably due to a trivial problem!
Since I had set the search on the feeds once or twice a day (instead of frequently, convinced that this was the best way not to burden the system 🤓), the system created some processing "queues" that slowed down the whole publishing mechanism: some Sometimes, from Mastodon, I saw friendica's messages only after one or more hours of publication! 😭
When we reset everything to "frequently" the problem disappeared... 🤣
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