Fedigest
fedigest.org
A front page for the threadiverse, picked by people. Self-hosted, free software.

Made a thing. Fedigest is a self-hosted site where you pick posts from anywhere in the threadiverse, write a few lines about why they’re worth reading, and publish them as one front page.

Comments are pulled live from the original thread. Want to vote or reply? Enter your home instance once, it gets saved in your browser, and from then on every post takes you straight to the same post on your own instance. It can also follow communities and add new posts automatically.

Comes with 15 themes (light/dark pairs follow your device, and there’s a terminal one with an old PC font), and you can make your own with a live preview.

Runs as one Docker container, SQLite inside. Still early, version 0.1.3. Built with help from an LLM.

Demo: https://demo.fedigest.org/
Code: https://github.com/DaDosDude/Fedigest

Feedback welcome.

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    6·
    9 hours ago

    Ok folks, this is the third report I’ve gotten about these kinds of posts, so let me address this in a pin.

    I know we have a rabid anti-ai crowd here, and while that’s not my view, I respect yours and you are allowed to feel any way you’d like about AI projects posted here and say what you’d like as well, as long as you stay respectful.

    The reports I keep getting are:

    this content needs AI flair, it’s required.

    I’m gonna need some help understanding this one. I’ve read the sidebar (I helped write it after all), and I’ve read the Lemmy.world rules in general. There is no mention of that “requirement”, and further, how the hell do you flair a post?!

    I’m always happy to find out I’m the idiot and misinformed, so mystery reporter, please feel free to enlighten me here or in DM. In the meantime though, I don’t want to receive AI content reports here. If it’s on topic, it’s staying.

    • DosDude@retrofed.comOPEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      Piefed has a flair feature. Lemmy does not. I guess that’s where it comes from.

      Also, I understand LLMs are not popular here. I am just creating things I want to use that don’t exist yet. Everybody is free to use them as they see fit. All my projects are actively being maintained and updated when necessary.

      I’ve been working on this (Fedigest) for months and thought it was complete and finished enough for a public release. Also I am happy how it worked out, and plan on running a website powered by this software in the future.

      If anyone feels the LLM part of the design is a deal breaker, feel free to ignore. I did not make this for anyone except myself, but I’ve decided to publicly release it for people who might also be interested.