Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, Thud does indeed provide the functionality to select feeds from an online database.
However, I suggest to make use of that functionality in a different way, which involves a decentralized protocol.
Describe the solution you'd like
Adding support for protocol IPFS and selecting feeds from a database.
Describe alternatives you've considered
The current mechanism used by Thud.
Additional context
I'm working on a feeds database at Slixfeed. The database is at the public domain.
The reason I suggest IPFS (or any DHT fashion technology) is because the database is expected to grow larger, so it would be wiser to share that database with peers, when the only centralized (e.g. HTTP) factor would be the IPFS hash.
The above database amount ~3K feeds, and there is another database which amounts ~3K feeds too.
We are operating an RSS crawler which amount over 500K news feeds, excluding git, subvertion and wikis. The database resulted by the crawler wasn't reviewed yet. Reviewed feeds will be added slowly to the database.
Because this database is intended to be used with my project, and because it has less than 10K entries, I don't make any selection, which means that some sources might not be appropriate (i.e. nsfw).
Personally, I might have a legal issue with that database at the moment, because I also add sources of neighbouring countries. Some of these sources appear to be censored by the ISP providers here, and this is another reason of why I have an interest of making that database available via a decentralized mean (e.g. IPFS).
Suggestion to allocate feeds via IPFS
There would be several databases allocated by language code and country code.
Unrestricted
de would include all feeds for use by German speaking audience that is not subjected to restrictions poised by any other German speaking countries (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland).
Restricted
de-at would include any feed in German, excluding those that are forbidden by Austrian government.
de-ch would include any feed in German, excluding those that are forbidden by Swiss government.
de-de would include any feed in German, excluding those that are forbidden by German government.
etc.
Unrestricted databases (those that do not have country code), like de, will either be unavailable or would be available by enabling an option.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, Thud does indeed provide the functionality to select feeds from an online database.
However, I suggest to make use of that functionality in a different way, which involves a decentralized protocol.
Describe the solution you'd like Adding support for protocol IPFS and selecting feeds from a database.
Describe alternatives you've considered The current mechanism used by Thud.
Additional context I'm working on a feeds database at Slixfeed. The database is at the public domain.
The reason I suggest IPFS (or any DHT fashion technology) is because the database is expected to grow larger, so it would be wiser to share that database with peers, when the only centralized (e.g. HTTP) factor would be the IPFS hash.
The above database amount ~3K feeds, and there is another database which amounts ~3K feeds too.
We are operating an RSS crawler which amount over 500K news feeds, excluding git, subvertion and wikis. The database resulted by the crawler wasn't reviewed yet. Reviewed feeds will be added slowly to the database.
See also https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/discussions/974#discussioncomment-8195898
Warning! (Government)
Because this database is intended to be used with my project, and because it has less than 10K entries, I don't make any selection, which means that some sources might not be appropriate (i.e. nsfw).
Personally, I might have a legal issue with that database at the moment, because I also add sources of neighbouring countries. Some of these sources appear to be censored by the ISP providers here, and this is another reason of why I have an interest of making that database available via a decentralized mean (e.g. IPFS).
Suggestion to allocate feeds via IPFS
There would be several databases allocated by language code and country code.
Unrestricted
dewould include all feeds for use by German speaking audience that is not subjected to restrictions poised by any other German speaking countries (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland).Restricted
de-atwould include any feed in German, excluding those that are forbidden by Austrian government.de-chwould include any feed in German, excluding those that are forbidden by Swiss government.de-dewould include any feed in German, excluding those that are forbidden by German government.Unrestricted databases (those that do not have country code), like
de, will either be unavailable or would be available by enabling an option.