In an effort to avoid news aggregation sites such as Google, as well as other generalized sources of information that could have a tendency to curate my news feed against my will or knowledge, I'm attempting to build a personal platform that solves for the follwoing problems:
- Anonymity. I don't want aggregation sites like Google News deciding what content to show me based on what content I typically see. For this first phase of my project I'm considering all 3rd party aggregators suspect.
- Content curation. I want to decide with granularity what types of content I do and don't receive. No magic, no behind the scenes algorithms. If there's any filtering or curation, I want to be 100% in charge of it.
- Centrally hosted. I need my mobile and desktop experience to be sync'd.
My current set-up involves the following tools currently
- FreshRSS (in a docker container)
- MySQL for data storage. It comes configured with SQL-Lite by default but I wanted something more