Moving away from Google. I just added my fav subs into my rss feed but that isn’t an enough to get good recs. What else can one do? Alternative front ends that work?

  • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Grayjay is source available, which is better than nothing. I’d prefer FOSS, but the features make up for the poor choice of license.

      • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        It’s really not. Windows XP had its source leaked, it’s not source available. Grayjay is source available, so I can see every new commit before it hits my phone. That’s a pretty big difference, and it’s the most important when it comes to public security audits.

          • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            That doesn’t follow. If there’s a bad commit in Windows 10 or 11, I won’t even know about it. If there’s a bad commit in Grayjay, I can:

            • not upgrade, or downgrade to an unaffected version
            • report the issue on their issue tracker
            • technically violate the license by patching it myself and building my own copy (probably fine provided I don’t distribute changes)

            I can do exactly none of that with most proprietary software, so this source-available license is much better than those. Again, it’s not ideal, but considering it the same as every other proprietary software license is absurd.