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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?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

So is Windows XP

That doesn't mean much

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

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.