temporary.chat-playbook VS RSS-Bridge

used as an easy platform to diffuse content via rss (works for images too)

https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporar...

I am building my own chat server/file upload server that you can host at home. you can also firewall it. It works without external dependencies after install, and it also works without phone number and even without dns if you want. /r/privacy mods will never let me post it for some reason, even if I try to explain it is a work in progress and a collaborative project (that's what open source is about) they talk to me about shipping, audited, etc. I'm just one guy who wrote this as a side project for a few months now. Live demo is here https://temporary.chat/ and code is here https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook

I mean, it is great to see people get into security stuff and build chat stuff. But I have some points on your "philisophy".

You hate big billion dollar Companies? Well, your domain is hosted on AWS so are the servers. To prrof your point, you should've got the domain somewhere else and host the serveres somewhere else. Additionally, how is the weather in Middlesex, GB?

Now to the software side. Man is that repo a mess. I mean, you put a lot of work into the documents which is great, but until you find the damn source code of the actual important shit it takes years. (if anyone interested it is this billion character long mess: https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporar...).

What am I trying to say here? Great to see people starting coding. But split the project up or at least order it. The source of the server should be on click on `src` and done. Maybe extract the client to another repo. Hide the whole deployment stuff in another folder. We people who click the link to github want to see code. Not configuration stuff. First look matters.

And, if you want to be so "security hacker like nobody knows", create fancy profile picture with no face. Get a decent username no hash gabage. Hide your WhoIs Information from the domain. If you care about security and "not being dependent on multi billion dollar companies that collect all our data", don't use AWS. Go to a decent server hosting n your country (or where privacy matters).

Did this wake my interest? Yes.

https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

how to deploy is here :

> make the calendar available via rss.

I've thought a lot about ICS/RSS combinations[0], and my current stance is that while they achieve similar things in some cases, RSS is meant for things that happened in the past (items in the future may or may not show in your client), and calendars are meant for future events. This incompatibility makes it hard to do RSS feeds for events, unless you use event-publication-date, which has its own issues.

I've instead been working on custom calendars for sites I care about.[1] is one such attempt from someone else, but I've been focusing on simpler options[2]

There's also the problem that both Android and Windows are horrible with webcal (iOS/MacOS/Linux work decently well), making "subscribable web calendars" out of reach of most Android users, unless the understand the terrible UX that these platforms offer.

[0]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/issues/1351

[1]: https://github.com/simon816/ical-bridge

[2]: https://captnemo.in/blr-habba/

rss bridge [1] seems to do the same, but it's not coupled to any rss reader

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

There's also RSS-Bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

"The RSS feed for websites missing it"

That is cool for a local feed. Have you tried it on a server?

I am able to get a lot of generally unavailable feeds using https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge running on my server. Perhaps this code could be someday brought in as a catch-all last resort.

Since everything worked as intended, I created a pull request to the RSS-Bridge repository and after a few hours my code was merged and now every public server will have a new Ko-Fi bridge for everyone to use. And since this is something I will use for myself, I will make sure to maintain it as long as possible.

I use RSS Bridge although it's unfortunate that I have to. Plus in the past week or two spam has been getting through into it which is lovely.

RSS-Bridge has a Google search adapter. You can also fake it with Searx (which offers RSS feeds of search results).