# kickscondor/fraidycat

Follow blogs, wikis, YouTube channels, as well as accounts on Twitter, Instagram, etc. from a single page.

Repository: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fraidycat
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-02-07T01:25:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2629, "days_push": 939, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1818, forks 64 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:40.645600+00:00)

## What it is
Fraidycat is an app (and browser extension) for following people across many platforms - blogs, wikis, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and more - from a single local page. Instead of a chronological firehose feed, it shows an overview of who is active, organized by tags and priority check intervals.

## Use cases
- follow blogs and social media accounts from one page
- track twitter and youtube accounts without algorithms
- monitor who is active across multiple platforms
- replace rss reader with a recency-based follow overview
- self-host a personal feed aggregator
- follow people on social media privately via tor

## When to choose
- you want a low-noise overview of activity across many sites rather than a full inbox feed
- you prefer organizing follows by tags and check frequency instead of algorithmic feeds
- you want a local, privacy-respecting tool that can run over Tor

## When to avoid
- you need a traditional chronological feed reader or full post inbox
- you need team features, cloud sync accounts, or mobile apps
- you need a project with frequent updates - development has slowed and v2 is still unreleased

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, developer-tools, gui
- domain: social-media, developer-tools, self-hosted, privacy
- platform: windows, browser, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: feed-reader, social-media-following, browser-extension, tor, activity-overview, javascript, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- kickscondor/fraidycat (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:40.645600+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:20:04.427793+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:40.645600+00:00, sha c4213f5fd203)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.