Replacing Three Social Media Apps with One Using Skyscraper
Skyscraper is an app that supports Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and standard.site in a single app that runs natively on IOS, Mac, Apple Watch, and more. But can it replace all the different apps I use for these purposes?
@fastfinge Oh really? I have seen it fail with a few websites where lire succeeds. Maybe I should take a second look after a few years. Wired, in particular, is something worth testing.
@fastfinge And has Miniflux been set up on your server? I ask this because I can't set it up like that because I don't have a server. And the Iranian ones are mostly crap.
@amir I read wired via Apple News, so I can't speak to that. But it succeeds with Arstechnica where Lire generally fails. And miniflux does support adding extraction rules, where Lire doesn't have quite as much advanced support there.
@fastfinge I tried the Apple News Wired stuff. when I was subscribed to it. But Apple News doesn't provide as many articles as I can get from Wired's RSS feed.
@fastfinge I once compared the articles almost a year ago, and the Apple side provides fewer articles. And a bit later than the actual RSS. Maybe things have changed.
@fastfinge And have you tried NY Times and WSJ articles for text extraction? BlindRSS and lire can't get them as both publications are quite serious about paywalls - LOL! Bookshare offers both - even their online articles outside the scope of the newspapers, but reading them full-text via RSS feels much better and is less time-consuming.
