I should follow up to say: I do recognize that if the service wants to be able to display content from your facebook feed or youtube channel, certainly it needs to ask for access to that content. I don't object to that; I object to it asking for far more access than it needs, before you're even able to see the product you're granting access to, after making such a big deal about "putting the user back in control" of their data.
I went ahead and sucked it up and signed up via facebook. (There's a "free invitation code" on Dissident's facebook page, if you're curious.) It's... eh. For facebook content it only has the ability to show "Pages", not people -- I believe this is a facebook-imposed limitation, but it makes Dashboard fairly useless for that site at least. You can import RSS feeds and read them inside this app, which works reasonably well. There are dozen or so other services that can be imported as sources (mostly the usual suspects: youtube, vimeo, medium, flickr, etc). In all cases that I tried, the app asks to be granted maximal permission, whether that's reasonable or not. That's about it. The UI feels a little old-school -- it's all nested folders and tiny type -- but isn't terrible.
I dunno. Maybe if I hadn't been so turned off by the awful marketing copy I'd be feeling more charitable about the app itself -- it looks like a not-terrible feed reader, I suppose -- but as it stands I don't see anything here that seems worth paying money for, and I don't see anything that has anything to do with the manifestos and sloganeering.
I went ahead and sucked it up and signed up via facebook. (There's a "free invitation code" on Dissident's facebook page, if you're curious.) It's... eh. For facebook content it only has the ability to show "Pages", not people -- I believe this is a facebook-imposed limitation, but it makes Dashboard fairly useless for that site at least. You can import RSS feeds and read them inside this app, which works reasonably well. There are dozen or so other services that can be imported as sources (mostly the usual suspects: youtube, vimeo, medium, flickr, etc). In all cases that I tried, the app asks to be granted maximal permission, whether that's reasonable or not. That's about it. The UI feels a little old-school -- it's all nested folders and tiny type -- but isn't terrible.
I dunno. Maybe if I hadn't been so turned off by the awful marketing copy I'd be feeling more charitable about the app itself -- it looks like a not-terrible feed reader, I suppose -- but as it stands I don't see anything here that seems worth paying money for, and I don't see anything that has anything to do with the manifestos and sloganeering.