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Stephen Downes

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FraidyCat

Kicks Condor, Nov 14, 2019

FraidyCat is content syndication without the syndication. It's a Firefox and Chrome plugin that allows you to follow individuals across multiple social media accounts (at present: blogs, Tumblr, Medium, Mastodon, micro.blog, Wikipedia, Kickstarter, Stack Overflow, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud, Pinboard, YouTube and Reddit, and even TiddlyWiki). Even better, "Fraidycat doesn't communicate with a central server, so it's not capturing all this user data for some company. It's open source; find it here. What I'd really like to see is something like this in its own application; an Electron app, for example. Caution: this is "brand-new, quite experimental", so don't just install it without expecting any side-effects.

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