Fraidycat
Follow from afar.
What is Fraidycat?
Fraidycat is a Chrome extension developed by kicks, and its main feature is "Follow from afar.".
Extension Screenshots
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Extension Usage Instructions
Fraidycat is a new type of single-page "reader" - a dashboard for monitoring social media accounts, discussion websites and blogs. Rather than showing you a massive inbox of new posts to sort through, you see a list of recently active individuals. The page updates as new posts are discovered.
Fraidycat also focuses on "importance" - each account or website that you follow can be assigned a priority, whether you want to keep up in "Real-time" or if you "Rarely" want updates. In this way, you can track important "Real-time" follows on the front page, while lower priority items are hidden away.
Other features are:
- Sync. If you are logged in to Chrome, your follows will be synced between any Chrome browsers running the extension.
- Import and export of your saved data to JSON, OPML and HTML files.
- Tags. Follows can be categorized into separate tabs. Even emoji can be used as tags!
- Concise. Rather than filling up your display with large posts, each follow is given two lines of summary. (See our screenshots.)
- Live and pinned posts. If an account is currently 'live' or has 'pinned' posts, these are shown in that follow's status line.
- Dark mode. You can alternate between light and dark themes.
- Fraidycat supports most social networks and feed types.
Fraidycat is a whole new concept in tracking creators on the Web. If you don't quite see how this is different from a classic feed reader, check out our video above to see the tool in action.
"I did not expect how immediately and wholeheartedly I would appreciate and enjoy [Fraidycat] once I began to use it." - Jason McIntosh
"I am enjoying the browser extension called Fraidycat, which presents a lovely, anarchic opportunity: follow all the people you like, no matter what platform they’re using, without having accounts on those platforms. Basically, it’s an 'RSS… or whatever' reader." - Robin Sloan
"It’s really neat, and I’m already finding it a much more deliberate and less distracting way of surfing the modern web that doesn’t just involve me mindlessly refreshing social feeds and closing and opening various browser tabs like a rat in a maze." - Nick Statt, The Verge Extension Basic Information
| Name |  Fraidycat |
| ID | hecfkgekabkkhiidlinmifelhdooeool |
| Official URL | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fraidycat/hecfkgekabkkhiidlinmifelhdooeool |
| Description | Follow from afar. |
| File Size | 1.88 MB |
| Installation Count | 2,076 |
| Current Version | 1.1.10 |
| Last Updated | 2021-08-29 |
| Publish Date | 2020-05-21 |
| Rating | 4.91/5 Total 11 Ratings |
| Developer | kicks |
| [email protected] | |
| Payment Type | free |
| Extension Website | https://fraidyc.at/ |
| Help Page URL | https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues |
| Privacy Policy Page URL | https://fraidyc.at/privacy |
| Supported Languages | en-US |
| manifest.json | |
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"manifest_version": 2,
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"short_name": "Fraidycat",
"version": "1.1.10",
"description": "Follow from afar.",
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},
"options_ui": {
"page": "settings.html"
},
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],
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],
"css": [
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],
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},
{
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],
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],
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],
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}
],
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"images\/flatcat-16.png",
"images\/flatcat-32.png",
"images\/flatcat-48.png",
"images\/flatcat-512.png",
"images\/flatcat-64.png",
"images\/flatcat.png",
"images\/gear.svg",
"images\/globe.svg",
"images\/logo.png",
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"32": "images\/flatcat-32.png",
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}
},
"permissions": [
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"https:\/\/*\/",
"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/*",
"https:\/\/*.fbcdn.net\/*",
"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/*",
"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/*",
"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/*",
"https:\/\/twitter.com\/*",
"storage",
"tabs",
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"webRequestBlocking"
],
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"strict_min_version": "57.0"
}
}
} | |
