Fraidycat is a fantastic new app for keeping tabs on your favorite internet gems

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Keeping up to velocity with the galactic firehouse of daily internet dross that gets blasted at our eyeballs every minute of every day can be a demanding endeavor. It generally involves using RSS readers, Warble lists, YouTube and Twitch crowding notifications, and all-too-frequent email inbox refreshing, among dozens of other methods for blockage on top of your loved internet oddities and coursing through all the junk to find them.

Thankfully, something like Fraidycat now exists.

A free, ajar antecedent workings released late last year and significantly updated just yesterday, Fraidycat works as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox or as an app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It bundles unflappable all of your loved internet stuff into one easy-to-read page, numerous like a super-powered RSS reader. The five-star part is that it's not computative like the Witty Pattern That Shall Not Be Named.

Not an computative feed, but a secure window of your loved stuff

You just bead a segment to a loved website, label it appropriately, and it ancestor up on Fraidycat under the tab you want it under and refreshes only as generally as you like. The signification looks, and feels, like something designed from a primeval internet era that wasn't obsessed by versatile tech conglomerates with monopolistic holds on the heart-searching economy. And that's the point.

"Magazines of the practiced kept us up to stage with hundreds of people -- celebrities and professional names. The thing that excited me anyway the internet was that I could keep up with a whole lot of alien but affably interesting people," says establisher Kicks Condor in a YouTube video explaining the purpose of Fraidycat. "However, I don't want some giant news feed of everything. Why is it the current obsession to just dump heaped everyone is saying right in your face? I don't want a giant rackety feed that's obsessed by anyone who posts the picked conventionally or, worse, the picked flagrantly."

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Condor says the point of Fraidycat is to create a faculty of schmaltz for a younger, increasingly innocent internet -- and to be a handy way to recreate that. "Personal websites were like your home. It wasn't this distrusting humming street diverge leafed of traffic noises and street vendors, or security cams. It was just your stuff, conceivably sloppily immensity in disarray, but yeah -- like a home. Visualize of watching TV in your bedroom." Fraidycat, he says, is your "window on the world."

Say you want to apperceive what a small, niche YouTuber you like has posted in a unshared week, but you'd rather apperceive what your loved tech blog posts every day. You can prepare your Fraidycat lists to visionary those out, accordingly it's handy to jump inserted either based on the frequency or by the individualistically tags you've given each respective item. (You can planate use emoji as tags.) Fraidycat will cull new information every five to 10 minutes as it comes in for items appointed real-time and already every one to hours for daily ones. (There's moreover cocky explanatory weekly, monthly, and yearly options.)

Less Facebook and increasingly Fraidycat

For me personally, I'm getting into self-moving keyboards, and Fraidycat is axis out to be a immoderate way to prepare the various subreddits, YouTube channels, and online supplies I now find myself homebody for new build guides and rare product drops. I moreover like quite a few specific Instagram accounts related to the hobby, but there's no handy way to hive a custom Instagram feed on the web in a way similar to a Warble list that makes it handy to jump to new posts and determent in your loved accounts. Yet Fraidycat is appreciably good at it.

You can determent out the Fraidycat lawmaking on Github here, and there's desktop app versions of the signification if you're into that, although those don't suture sync inserted various computers. (The browser extension versions sync linearity equipment using your Chrome or Firefox account.) You can moreover determent out the service's secure blog for some of Condor's planned changes, including a beheld questionnaire professedly in the works.

It's really neat, and I'm already finding it a numerous increasingly deliberate and shorter troublemaking way of surfing the modern web that doesn't just involve me mindlessly auspicious witty feeds and eventual and peephole various browser tabs like a rat in a maze. Shorter Facebook and increasingly Fraidycat.