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Post #3209510

2022-12-03 00:49 UTC

@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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  • @davew@mastodon.social 2022-12-03 00:58

    @AlexGizis@mstdn.social -- it gives us a lever to get Twitter to follow suit and support RSS in their product. See this blog post. http://scripting.com/2022/12/02/005224.html

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  • @indieartisans@mas.to 2022-12-03 01:08

    @AlexGizis@mstdn.social For me it lets me put together specific information from a variety of sources. Say I just wanted to see feeds from potters, I could collect the rss feeds together and see all of their pottery posts in one place.

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  • @piccolbo@hachyderm.io 2022-12-03 07:59

    @AlexGizis@mstdn.social @davew@mastodon.social Because he invented it.

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  • @aaravchen@fosstodon.org 2022-12-03 18:15

    @AlexGizis@mstdn.social Telegram has a chat-like mode and a broadcast-follow mode because there is actually demand for it. With ActivityPub having greater overhead than RSS from the sending server, I'm all for large broadcast-subscribe cases using RSS instead, though it would be good if the Fedi contact details were in the RSS data. @davew@mastodon.social

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  • @futureisfoss@fosstodon.org 2022-12-04 13:34

    @AlexGizis@mstdn.social > I have Rss feeds i’d like to import into mastodon, which would seem to make more sense, but isn’t supported This feature is actually supported by #Friendica, which is a part of the fediverse. You just copy the URL of a website and paste it onto the Friendica search bar, if there is an RSS feed available you can directly follow it from there, and the feed items will appear on your timeline like any other posts. https://trom.tf/social lists out more features of Friendica. @davew@mastodon.social

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