Show HN: Collaborative RSS Reader

LinkLonk is a novel mechanism to subscribe to RSS feeds and discover content - upvote or submit a link to anything you liked and you will get connected to RSS feeds that posted this content. The more content you upvote from the same feed - the higher other content from that feed will show up in the For You page. This helps you see content from feeds with the highest signal-to-noise ratio first.<p>In addition to RSS feeds, you connect to other users who upvoted the same content as you. This way other users help highlight great content from feeds you are already connected to and discover other feeds that they are connected to.<p>To sum up: upvote content =&gt; connect to RSS feeds and users =&gt; discover great new content =&gt; repeat.<p>This is my hobby project that I am building in my spare time. My stack is: PostgreSQL + Golang server (sqlc, pgx, gorilla&#x2F;mux) + Angular client + Firebase for auth. It runs on a small VPS instance on OVH that costs ~$12&#x2F;month. I am planning to run it for years to come and I will be happy to have you as a user.<p>I did a Show HN for linklonk.com 3 months ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28405643" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28405643</a>), but I think I over complicated the title and the description, as exemplified by this comment I received: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linklonk.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;8281929870071398400?comment=1734804341852897280" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linklonk.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;8281929870071398400?comment=173480...</a>. That’s why I’m reposting it.

Please add a &quot;buy me a coffee&quot; or something, I really like this concept and want to see it developed further.

So... I&#x27;d say the best part of using an RSS reader for news is choosing to what you see explicitly instead of relying on algorithms based on popularity to float things in front of you.<p>I&#x27;m curious, have you thought about the negative potentials here? The upside is we&#x27;re using open standards like RSS, but aren&#x27;t you recreating some of the same issues with social media?

This is really neat and using rss should help you get over the initial hump of needing a large community to drive involvement.<p>I also like the fact that you just use people who voted up the same content to create groupings, instead of some big ML algorithm.

I quite like the idea, two thoughts - firstly, one&#x27;s personalised page&#x2F;feed be accessed as an RSS feed itself? And can it be seeded with known liked feeds or content? And can you &#x27;pin&#x27; liked feeds in some way, to say &#x27;I always want to see content from here&#x27;?<p>I suppose my questions can be summarised as Is this a reader, or another source?

How did you come up with this mechanism? It&#x27;s very clever, simple yet powerful. Once I saw I could associate upvotes with channels, I realized how useful this could be! It&#x27;s like making your own subreddits that fill up with content automatically. I think after you reach a critical mass of active users, this could really take off.

This is pretty cool. I’ll heed what you say and try to give feedback soon. Seeing this during holiday season should give me time to actually consume this enough to try to see if it can become a regular part of what I use.

Brilliant idea! this is the web3.0 which should be focused on.

Is it open source?