Feed Aggregators and Idea Silos

There's an idea being floated about building a decentralized, personalized feed aggregator as opposed to something like Antenna which is open for all to submit to.

gemini://idiomdrottning.org/right-wing-politics-on-gemini

gemini://gemini.panda-roux.dev/log/entry/66

gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20220922_right_wing

I wanted to chime in and promote Comitium since it sounds almost exactly like what's being discussed. No need to reinvent anything because it already works with any kind of feed you'll find on gemini.

nytpu.com: announcing comitium: a feed aggregator for gemini and more

Comitium source code

My comitium feed

Additionally, I would caution against building any community where a core goal is to only gather with people who share identical political ideologies. I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't ever be done, but I generally see such communities as unproductive at best and a breeding ground for extremism at worst. You only need to look as far as Reddit, Lemmy, or one of the many "free speech" platforms to see why. Just my two cents.

- moddedBear / 2022-09-22

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