Fraidycat VS The Old Reader

Fraidycat Reviews

1. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | about 4 years ago
   A great way to follow RSS

   I was looking for something like this for quite some time. I've been using Fraidycat for about 2 months now. It's very simple and easy to use. I love the you can organize your feeds by simple "emoji" tags. Also, the idea of setting an importance/frequency level per feed is great.

   If only more websites had RSS feeds...

   🏁 Competitors: Feedly, The Old Reader

   👍 Pros:    Simple|Unique

The Old Reader Reviews

Fraidycat mentions (26)

• Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

  I went years without consuming RSS until I discovered Fraidy Cat[1] here at Hacker News. 1. https://fraidyc.at. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• How are you preparing for disinformation campaigns?

  There’s also an aggregator app called fraidycat that pulls content from multiple sources and does so without logging in, so you get a breadth of information and non-personalized results. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

  I'm a big fan of FraidyCat for following RSS feeds: https://fraidyc.at/ I also include uBlockOrigin and 1password. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I built a possible alternative to social media RSS

  Seems like what https://fraidyc.at/ does already. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Twitodon: Finding Twitter Peers on Mastodon

  You may be interested in Fraidycat. Per the description: > Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. I use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, even on a public TiddlyWiki. This doesn't solve the problem of discoverability, but it solves half of what you described. https://fraidyc.at/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

The Old Reader mentions (34)

• Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

  I haven't used it in a while but https://theoldreader.com/ seemed like a fairly drop-in replacement for Google Reader. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• RSS is still pretty great

  Https://theoldreader.com/ Just toss in a site you like, it'll (try to) find the RSS feed, and you're done. I have about 50 sites added in the old reader, and it makes following them easy. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• The future of /r/videos.

  Perhaps. I fired up my ancient Old Reader account last night and started adding some feeds I'm interested in. Pretty hilarious looking back at the ones I had like 10 years ago (99% of were dead). Source: 11 months ago

• NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

  Https://theoldreader.com is an exact clone. Source: about 1 year ago

• Canberra events RSS feed?

  Blurgh. Sorry, I didn't try it out, just saw that it looked something like RSS. The other problem with RSS is people don't make sure it is still working on their sites :) Maybe there is a reader that can filter to only show the what's on entries from the main feed? You could definitely do it with a bash script or similar. I just use https://theoldreader.com in a very simple way. There might be a more powerful... Source: about 1 year ago