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<h1 class="topbar-title">About</h1>
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<h1>FeatherReader is a calm, quiet reader — and a public experiment.</h1>
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A typography-first reader of RSS feeds and standard.site publications,
for people who left algorithmic feeds on purpose. Read, quietly.
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<h2>This is an experiment</h2>
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FeatherReader is run as a public experiment with <strong>no service-level
agreement and no uptime guarantee</strong>. It may change, break, slow down,
or be paused at any time, without notice. Please don't rely on it as your
only reader — treat it as something to try, not something to depend on.
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<h2>Your data lives in your PDS</h2>
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There is no account here. You sign in with your own atproto identity, and
your subscriptions, folders, stars, and read-state are written as
open-standard <code>community.lexicon.rss.*</code> records in
<strong>your own PDS</strong> — not on this server. Because your data is
yours and portable, you can walk away at any time and take it with you.
OPML export is always available, because leaving must be as easy as arriving.
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Because that PDS is <strong>public</strong>, FeatherReader supports
<strong>public feeds only</strong> for now: a private or paid feed carries
its secret in the URL, and this server never stores or writes such a secret
anywhere. Private/paid-feed support will arrive when atproto's permissioned
data (private records) ships.
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<h2>RSS feeds and standard.site publications</h2>
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FeatherReader reads two kinds of subscription. One is the ordinary public
RSS or Atom feed. The other is a
<a href="https://standard.site" rel="noopener noreferrer">standard.site</a>
publication: a <code>site.standard.publication</code> record in the
author's own atproto repo, whose articles are
<code>site.standard.document</code> records in the same repo. There is
no feed document to fetch — FeatherReader reads those records directly,
without signing in to anything, and shows each article's title, date,
link and plain-text summary. It deliberately does not render a
document's rich <code>content</code>, which differs from one publishing
platform to the next; the link takes you to the article as the author
published it.
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A publication subscription is the same
<code>community.lexicon.rss.subscription</code> record as a feed, with
the publication's <code>at://</code> URI where a feed URL would be, so it
is just as portable. Publications are re-read on the same interval as
feeds and sit beside them in the reading list, in order.
{% if standard_site %}
To subscribe, paste <code>at://did:plc:…/site.standard.publication/…</code>
into the subscribe form — or the handle form
<code>at://alice.example.com/site.standard.publication/…</code>, which
is resolved to its DID before it is saved. Only the DID form is stored,
because a handle is a mutable name for an account.
{% else %}
This instance isn't accepting new publication subscriptions yet;
publications it already follows are still read.
{% endif %}
The <a href="/standard-site">standard.site page</a> has the whole
story, including what is deliberately not done.
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<h2>Open source & self-hostable</h2>
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FeatherReader is free software under the
<a href="{{ repo_url }}" rel="noopener noreferrer">AGPL-3.0</a>. You can read
the code, file issues, or run your own copy — a single static binary plus a
small OAuth sidecar. If you'd rather not depend on this instance, self-hosting
is a first-class path.
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<h2>Support the experiment</h2>
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If FeatherReader is useful to you and you'd like to help keep it running,
you can <a class="tip-link" href="{{ kofi_url }}" rel="noopener noreferrer">leave a tip ♥</a>.
It's a solo project; there's no obligation, and the reader stays free either way.
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{% if let Some(a) = adoption %}
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{% if a.truncated %}At least {{ a.repos }}{% else %}{{ a.repos }}{% endif %}
{% if a.repos == 1 %}account on the atproto network holds{% else %}accounts on the atproto network hold{% endif %}
<code>community.lexicon.rss.subscription</code> records, as of
<time datetime="{{ a.observed_on }}">{{ a.observed_on }}</time>.
Relays only index the hosts they crawl, so this is a lower bound.
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<p>Built by <a href="https://justin-stanley.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Justin Stanley</a></p>
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