Post #1404946
2024-01-02 22:44 UTC
Replies (28)
-
@twilliability@genart.social 2024-01-03 21:50
Wow! The response to RSS Parrot in the first day has been overwhelming ✨ Thank you all for the enthusiasm and the overwhelmingly positive messages! Plus, the birb survived the day 🦜🦜🦜 :) I started a "Changes" section where I wrote up what's happened since the launch: https://rss-parrot.net/web/changes#2024-01-03 I'll be slightly more hands-off in the next few days. May the feeds be strong with you! 🧘♀️
-
@birb@rss-parrot.net 2024-01-02 22:44
@twilliability@genart.social Hm, I can't find an RSS feed for this site. Is the address right? It can also happen that the site is temporarily down, or it doesn't have an RSS feed.
-
@berniethewordsmith@mastodon.online 2024-01-03 00:32
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net Nice! Do we mention the normal address or the feed url?
-
@CA7746@masto.ai 2024-01-03 04:24
@twilliability@genart.social Cool! Another project, MastoFeeder, didn't handle ATOM or query strings (?this=that&the=other). Folks directly requested new feeds by hand-editing usernames, so MastoFeeder never got to see unmangled urls. https://github.com/jehna/mastofeeder Example CGPGrey YT ATOM feed: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w OpenRSS is a service that generates RSS for arbitrary sites. Mitigated the shortcomings. Parrot doesn't have those limitations but may benefit for sites lacking feeds. https://openrss.org/
-
@TheIdOfAlan@hachyderm.io 2024-01-03 05:42
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net I broke something :blobfoxbreadsnoot: I just setup an atom feed for my site today and tried to make a parrot account for it. It came back with just an `@` that points to `/u` https://hachyderm.io/deck/@birb@rss-parrot.net/111690395492612609 (I'm using a rust crate to build the feed and it's very possible I've got something set up wrong, but it's working in NetNewsWire)
-
@miki@dragonscave.space 2024-01-03 06:07
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net This is exactly what I'm looking for, but the UX is pretty terrible. THe bot can clearly handle direct messages but it just refuses to for some unknown reason. It very much looks like a dark pattern to me.
-
@brianhartgen@tweesecake.social 2024-01-03 06:50
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net @DavidGoldfield@tweesecake.social If this works that is an incredible discovery!
-
@mtyka@mastodon.art 2024-01-03 07:46
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net this is amazing 😍
-
@alxlg@mastodon.social 2024-01-03 08:58
@twilliability@genart.social Sadly many Mastodon instances block bots that mirror other platforms, including RSS
-
@solarchemist@social.sunet.se 2024-01-03 10:10
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net Very cool! Any plans to share the source code (or perhaps I missed it)?
-
@sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online 2024-01-03 10:17
@twilliability@genart.social Ooh, ooh, I don't know where to start! Authors' websites... newses... blogs... sciency things... I may not go out for at least a week. Thank you.
-
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social 2024-01-03 10:25
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net Amazing! This finally revived the thing I liked most about Google Reader - the ability to follow both feeds and people in the same place, and to have people who follow me be alerted to things in my RSS feeds that they don't follow that I have starred. Gonna start importing my Inoreader feeds right now!
-
@c_9@mstdn.ca 2024-01-03 10:46
@twilliability@genart.social Very cool. I tested with a site and it replied, but the account appears to not have been generated. Listed on your web page but account link is a 404. https://rss-parrot.net/u/birb/status/1704232245944624854
-
@Tertle950@mastodon.social 2024-01-03 12:19
@twilliability@genart.social Great if you use your home feed (or a list) for news a lot of the time. Fedilab is my new favorite RSS reader
-
@warrows@calckey.warrows.fr 2024-01-03 12:33
@twilliability@genart.social is it closed source, will it stay so? Is it free, will it stay so? What data does it collect? Obviously websites addresses and RSS Flux, does it keep a link to the profile making the request?
-
@andcam@mozilla.social 2024-01-03 13:33
@paul@tapbots.social Ivory as RSS reader? 😀
-
@da_ros@mastodon.social 2024-01-03 13:50
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net Nice, thanks! Test @Birb@mastodon.social https://www.theguardian.com/sport/nfl
-
@zemlanin@mastodon.devua.club 2024-01-03 14:12
@twilliability@genart.social Are RSS Parrot accounts public? If so, does it handle private feeds, like Patreon, differently?
-
@darthnull@infosec.exchange 2024-01-03 14:28
@twilliability@genart.social How quickly should we get a response? I tried this last night, and several times (from a couple different clients) this morning, and have no responses, and nothing's showing up in the master feed list. I can see other people's parroted feeds -- I'm just not sure my request is getting to the bot.
-
@bobhy@wehavecookies.social 2024-01-03 14:33
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net This is cool! But... Seems like a lot of work for the birb server to support all those feeds for the whole #fediverse ? Additional accounts for each sub feed of a popular site? It would be cool for Mastodon servers to provide an RSS feed for my timeline, so I could plug *that* into *my* feed reader!
-
@ada@mastodon.social 2024-01-03 14:38
@twilliability@genart.social This is very cool! It would be neat if the account icons matched the favicon of the page or the image from the feed.
-
@alexjsp@social.lol 2024-01-03 15:28
@twilliability@genart.social This is awesome and something I’ve wished existed for ages! 💜 Minor bug report: some URL encoded characters coming through: https://rss-parrot.net/u/eurogamer.net/status/1704232245944629476 I’d also love the favicon (or even better the high quality apple-touch-icon thingy) as the user avatar to differentiate feeds. (I imagine you’ve already thought of this!)
-
@TheGentlehacker@tech.lgbt 2024-01-03 15:35
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net ... This is brilliant!
-
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe 2024-01-03 16:45
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net WHOA this is groundbreaking!
-
@grork@mastodon.social 2024-01-03 16:48
@twilliability@genart.social It’d be really interesting to have the bot auto-split longer-than-toot-length articles into a thread w/ images.
-
@canpolat@hachyderm.io 2024-01-03 18:46
@twilliability@genart.social What a great idea! I always thought this should be done the other way (the RSS reader should implement Activity Pub so that one could toot directly from there), but this is great too!
-
@alks@ni.hil.ist 2024-01-03 19:04
@twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net this is so cool!!
-
@richlv@mastodon.social 2024-01-03 20:26
Ha, paskat, @jki@mastodon.social, kāds te serviss :)