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1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 05:09:57 EST Mayel - ghost account

   New year #resolutions: secede from the broadcast, more and more.

   1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 06:37:12 EST Mayel - ghost account

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      Hello fediverse! What's your favourite personal news curator?

      I'm thinking a #selfhosted #FLOSS app that's basically a feed aggregator, which also pulls in links shared by people you follow on various social networks, as well as topics (from hashtags or groups) you're interested in, and crucially, with volume controls (DYI feed algorithm) so you can adjust the signal/noise ratio.

      Anything out there?

      1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 06:41:11 EST Mayel - ghost account

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         I've been doing this manually for years, saving interesting links I stumble upon into Instapaper and then the Pocket app to read later. The curation itself is such a time sink though, that I end up actually looking at / reading only a small fraction of the content. So it's probably time to automate the curation, and focus on the digestion.

         1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 06:45:33 EST Mayel - ghost account

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            To those who ask why I bother? One day my personal AI (no, not Google, me) will read all of it. And what interesting discussions we'll have! Maybe it will even help connect some dots I haven't noticed...

      2. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 06:52:16 EST Mayel - ghost account

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         As part of the volume controls, there'd be the option of viewing links by most shared, or most discussed. Kind of like Reddit.

         1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 11:43:20 EST Mayel - ghost account

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            here's a list of everything I found that shared even one aspect with what I'm looking for: https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/1/edit/YKZkE2D-RYmI7qv0P7QFPA/zogSIreLmF71JKprL5+OVIZn/

            not much unfortunately...

            feel free to contribute!

            cc @muninn @Benjamin

      3. copyright respecter (kai@ajin.la)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 10:38:23 EST copyright respecter

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         @mayel sounds neat. I usually check news.google.com or a handful of favorite sites - ars, etc.