haven VS news

I'm kinda split between "everyone should be blogging" and "I don't want what I say today to be archive.org'd and used to embarrass me 5/10/20 years down the line."

I've been exploring Haven (https://havenweb.org) and the idea of an invite-only blog is appealing. Keep your crawlers off my writing, please.

I started building an open source private blogging system[1] when my first kid was born, and it eventually evolved into the skeleton of a social network--but fully decentralized using RSS and self- (or paid-) hosting. I concluded the only way for a network to actually avoid selling out was for there to be nothing to sell. If I give away the software, and don't control the network then there is no need for users to trust me. It continues to be an interesting journey as a side-project (not raising money means I'm still working a day-job).

[1]: https://havenweb.org

Can I plug Haven: https://github.com/havenweb/haven here too?

It is a solid RSS reader, while also letting you publish privately. The plan is for this to expand into a social reader[1] soon!

[1]: https://indieweb.org/social_reader

You're welcome to adapt the AWS deployment scripts I setup for Haven[1]. I tend to adapt them when deploying other personal projects like the sites I've built for my family tree or privately hosting/sharing old family home movies.

[1]: https://github.com/havenweb/haven/tree/master/deploymentscri...

I've been working on a self-hosted private blogging platform called Haven (https://github.com/havenweb/haven) that I use instead of FB. I've been a FB non-user for the last 10 years, but when I had kids I suddenly really wanted a place to share pictures with people. SSB, Mastadon, etc all seem to be focused on sharing things publicly but I hadn't found anything with a focus on private sharing. After trying to do it with Wordpress and struggling with spam and a fractured plugin ecosystem I just built it myself!

Nextcloud running the News app [1] on your own server, either an old laptop/desktop or a SBC like a Raspberry/Orange/Banana/${fruit} Pi. You'll get total control over whatever you do with the thing, as much 'free' cloud storage as you want and loads of other possible services. It runs fine on a Raspberry Pi 4 or one of the equivalent boards from other manufacturers.

Source: I've been running this before the Owncloud/Nextcloud split, it works as advertised.

[1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news

One of the first things I do when I test aggregator sites like this one is to look for the RSS feed. I may have missed something but I did not find one here - could that be added? It would make it much easier to integrate into my normal 'news flow' which is more or less entirely built around RSS feeds presented through Nextcloud News [1]. I can scrape sites which do not provide their own feed but that is tedious and just increases the load on those sites.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/news

NextCloud News (nécessite NextCloud installé)

If you think this is a bug, you should open a ticket here: https://github.com/nextcloud/news

I have contacted next cloud 'News' plugin developer https://github.com/nextcloud/news/discussions/2066 to request automated call to archive.org.

I have received a response:

I don't think archive.org would be very happy if every nextcloud/news install would request they store the CNN frontpage every hour for example. I think this is better suited in feed creation software since that would know exactly when a feed is updated.

Previously I used Nextcloud News and enjoyed it, but recent versions require 64-bit PHP [1], which I didn’t have on the Raspberry Pi. Never did figure out why this requirement was imposed just for the News app.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/news/issues/1423

NC News was my first RSS aggregator, back when I was doubing whether I might need something like this at all - now I can't imagine not having one

cross-platform and with an app for android would be Nextcloud News. (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news) - But obviously you'd be needing a nextcloud first.

I'm using Nextcloud already and that has an officially supported RSS daemon app[1]. I mainly use it with this really good Android client[2] (that's on F-Droid) that supports connecting to it (and Miniflux it appears, which I noticed a bunch of mentions in this thread of).

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/news

[2] https://github.com/bubelov/news