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?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    Not Foss so if that’s something that matters to you I would recommend you look elsewhere

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      8 months 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_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          8 months 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.

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            14·
            8 months ago

            You aren’t legally allowed to do anything about a bad commit so it is meaningless

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              8 months 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.