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I've long since replaced all of my social media usage with an old-fashioned RSS feed. It takes a non-trivial time to amass a large enough collection of websites that you are both interested in and update semi-regularly, but after a few years it's pretty rare that I feel that I'm lacking.
My previous feed was (and still is) hosted publicly via a Github Action that my friend Marco set up. At periodic intervals it reads through a list of feed URLs in the repo and completely regenerates a simple homepage based on those.
Afaik I'm the only one who actually _reads_ Cryptic News, which is fine, but it leaves some features to be desired. For one it doesn't support gemini at all, and at this point I spend more than half of my "aimless internet reading" time on gemini. Second it's a bit of a pain to add new feeds to it, and the code in question is a bit picky with regards to what metadata it wants along with each feed.
Enter comitium, which I discovered via nytpu's comitium feed.
nytpu's comitium subscriptions
Comitium source code (developed by nytpu)
Comitium is basically the perfect solution for me. It supports RSS/Atom/JSON feeds over both HTTP(s) and gemini (and gopher, for that matter), as well as the gemlog format which is fairly popular on gemini. It's also an exceedingly simple design; it just dumps static files into a folder, and leaves it to you to host them. There's no extra service that needs to be running, and just a single environment variable that needs to be configured in conjunction with a cronjob.
This weekend I decided to spend some time migrating all my subscribed feeds to a comitium installation, which of course remains public. I've named the result:
Now all my HTTP and gemini subscriptions are interleaved together in one place. Amazing!
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Published 2024-06-04 by mediocregopher
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