• clearleaf@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I don’t get how Flipboard is even a product when opening any browser gives you a wall of aggregated news stories unless you explicitly set it not to. Any website dedicated to that in 2023 is like a factory that just sucks in air and blows it out the other side.

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      11 months ago

      I often think this. I use a mix of reeder, feedly, vore, instapaper to see what I like.

      However I look at my parents and they’ll use Apple News or whatever news source they trust in a browser.

      Flipboard is used because it makes it easy for people to find aggregated information. What’s easier than something that already does the aggregation for you?

      Often we take for granted things we consider to be normal. I would think everyone has uBlock Origin installed (i’ve used it for years) or something similar, but this is clearly not the case.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      It’s pre-installed shovelware on some phones, in my experience.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve used Flipboard for a really long time. Not because I think it’s good or anything, but because I haven’t found anything that’s just so much better whenever I’ve looked. I particularly appreciate the widget on my Home Screen because it usually has at least one thing I’m inspired to read. I did install Feedly, but I don’t use that any more than Flipboard, and it seems to do the exact same thing.

      If you or anyone else have recommendations to something tangibly better though, I’m all ears.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Feedly

        Bells ringing… I remember that name… Search for it on the play store, holy crap, yes! That’s the app I used to replace Google Reader! Go to install it to try it again… Wait… Why does it say “Open” and not “Install”?

        That app has survived several phones without being opened lol. Poor thing. [tumbleweed rolls by]

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      11 months ago

      I like it better than the browser news walls. But then I still don’t use it much.