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Show HN: Endless - An attempt to unify the social media experience
Hey guys, Endless is an open-source mobile app that curates posts
from your favorite websites in one place with a common interface.
The application uses custom extractors specifically written for
each website. This way you can endlessly scroll through posts and
save the ones you like without having to deal with ads. With the
Endless server I am hosting you can also upvote and leave comments
on posts without creating an account! With random tokens linked to
your actions you basically use your device as your account and undo
your actions in the future without spoiling your identity. I hope
to add more extractors in the future. Feel free to install the app
and check out the extractors yourself or contribute to the project!
I always love to hear your comments and feedback. GitHub:
https://github.com/kaangiray26/endless APK Releases:
https://github.com/kaangiray26/endless/releases
Author : kaangiray26
Score : 49 points
Date : 2023-06-27 18:15 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| binkHN wrote:
| Love the idea! And kudos to releasing on Android first, which
| tends to be rare. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the app seems to
| be mostly JavaScript with a small Android wrapper?
| kaangiray26 wrote:
| Thank you kind stranger!
|
| Actually I was planning to make a web app but then I realized
| not all news websites have APIs for requesting their content.
| Then I've come across CapacitorJS which allows you to convert
| your web projects into mobile apps and they have a plugin
| called "CapacitorHttp", which patches the usual fetch function
| to use native libraries instead. This way it is possible to
| make http requests that do not get blocked by CORS-related
| problems. So, all the requests are made on the client-side,
| which takes so much work from my shoulders :)
| binkHN wrote:
| Neat! Thanks for the details!
| earlyriser wrote:
| I always wonder how this kind of services show images. Do they
| hot-link them or they are saved in their own servers? One
| approach violates web etiquette and the only seems over
| engineering (save an image that maybe just one use is going to
| see).
| adr1an wrote:
| Nice project, very much needed. I wonder, Is there an option to
| backup and recover accounts? Also, this sounds very much like
| centralization of diverse platforms. If the server had
| ActivityPub compatibility, it would be a great addition to the
| fediverse! :O.. Do you think it would be possible to do such a
| thing?
| tqi wrote:
| This is basically Cambridge Analytica, isn't it? If one of your
| friends / followers use this service, it will be able to access
| all of your shared content?
| kaangiray26 wrote:
| Sorry, I don't understand. Everyone on this service is
| anonymous as no account creation is needed. Upvotes and
| comments are not tied to users.
| gochi wrote:
| You could probably separate the extractors into their own repo
| for easier contribution, and less of a reliance on you having to
| manually create and validate them.
|
| Great job otherwise!
| gremlinsinc wrote:
| Crazy idea - add threaded reddit-like comments. Add reddit also,
| but just use the rss endpoints, then only have local/stored
| comments, moving all the comments off reddit. Then create a web
| version, so people can use a chrome extension or userscript that
| replaces reddit comments with your links, add an ad or two or a
| server fund ticker and it might get people off reddit.
| jtriangle wrote:
| > This way you can endlessly scroll through posts
|
| I can't decide if I love this or hate it because I like content
| and also spend too much time consuming it. I do like the google
| reader (rip) vibe to this idea though.
| dancedar wrote:
| Was expecting FriendFeed based on consolidating the social
| medias, but more akin to rss
| mydriasis wrote:
| *AWESOME* idea. Nice work, can't wait to see where this goes. I
| was discussing this same idea with my brother the other day,
| looks like you're well on the way!
| laurent123456 wrote:
| Love the idea, but I'm wondering if the backend could leverage
| one of the fediverse technologies?
|
| For example when someone comments or upvotes a page, a post for
| that page is automatically created on a Lemmy instance, and that
| will be used to manage the comments and upvotes.
|
| That way you don't need a server backend and you take advantage
| of a decentralised architecture
| ipaddr wrote:
| Aren't you centralizing on Lemmy?
| laurent123456 wrote:
| Lemmy is decentralised so... no?
| donio wrote:
| To ask the obvious question: Why use this over my favorite RSS
| reader?
| kaangiray26 wrote:
| With all respect to RSS, Endless allows for users to interact
| with posts. Which means you can upvote and leave comments for
| posts on websites that initially do not implement a way to do
| this. Thus, you don't have to create an account for that.
| Besides, with custom extractors you can see posts from pages
| with no RSS support. Also you will be able to see trending and
| controversial posts based on upvotes and comments on your front
| page in the upcoming versions.
| thepangolino wrote:
| [dead]
| mxuribe wrote:
| I'm not the author, but my guess would be that some of the
| suppoorted websites do not offer an RSS/atom feed to be
| leveraged by an RSS reader app. So, at a glance, it seems this
| app aggregates content for those sites/app which lack rss
| feeds...as well as includes sites which might already have rss
| feeds. At least, i think.
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