Post #2098351

2022-12-03 00:42 UTC

Mastodon which is incredibly hot, supports RSS beautifully. Just add .rss to any account to get the feed. Amazing! https://mastodon.social/@davew.rss Open that in your favorite feed reader. It’ll work. Post a screenshot, say what the reader app is. And pass this on to everyone who uses a feed reader. Spread the word! This is a huge deal for the open web.

Replies (11)

@AlexGizis@mstdn.social 2022-12-03 00:49

@davew@mastodon.social sorry, dumb question, but why is that great? I mean i see i can read toots in an rss reader, but i already have too many apps made for reading toots. I know you can use it to trigger stuff like ifttt for automation. I have Rss feeds i’d like to import into mastodon, which would seem to make more sense, but isn’t supported

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@indieartisans@mas.to 2022-12-03 00:57

@davew@mastodon.social It looks like it also works with hashtags that you follow: just add .rss to the hashtag link ie: https://mas.to/tags/gardenart.rss for the hashtag GardenArt. Thanks for the heads up!

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@pipercarter@mastodon.art 2022-12-03 01:12

@davew@mastodon.social thank you

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@helloronaut@toot.community 2022-12-03 01:20

@davew@mastodon.social i use it to log my posts to a google sheet

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@rkd993@aus.social 2022-12-03 01:32

@davew@mastodon.social but but RSS is so 1990s 😂

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@frodo32d@toad.social 2022-12-03 01:44

@davew@mastodon.social I wish I still knew what RSS was good for - and the bennies you get using it with Mastodon. Any good tutorials to bring us crinkling tech geezers back up to speed would be awesome.

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@bhawthorne@mastodon.lol 2022-12-03 01:55

@davew@mastodon.social But wouldn’t that just be a read-only version? I’m not getting why people would want to do this.

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@redheadedfemme@mindly.social 2022-12-03 01:55

@davew@mastodon.social Well, hell. It worked. I use NewsBlur.

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@jhshannon@mstdn.social 2022-12-03 02:12

@davew@mastodon.social RSS is an iconic reminder of the open web... the more tools available that will break the limitations of walled garden platforms the better!

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@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social 2022-12-03 02:15

@davew@mastodon.social it also works with tags so someone uninterested in joining masto can still keep tabs on what people are saying about a subject they’re interested in.

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@ask330@mastodon.social 2022-12-03 02:16

@davew@mastodon.social love this!

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