Jonno
Matthias OttDid you know that when you put .rss behind your Mastodon profile URL, you get an RSS feed? 😎
Nathan Knowler@matthiasott That’s so good.
Nordnick 
@matthiasott
Yes... 
But v3.5.3 isn't so nice regarding the title... so let's see, how it will look in 4.0... maybe like in 3.5.2 again...
Webklex@matthiasott nice, thanks for sharing
Jorge Candeias@matthiasott That's cool to know, but that's not the feed I'd be interested in.
Deadly Headshot@matthiasott
Ditto atom!
Ditto atom!
Leonardo Di Ottio@dheadshot @matthiasott Does Atom work too? I hope it does but just adding .atom instead of .rss doesn’t seem to work.
Paul weinheimer@matthiasott I have one dumb question: what exactly is the function of RSS.. what can I do with it?
@PaulWeinheimer Hey Paul! RSS is like a format for feeds of posts/data. If a website has an RSS feed (like most WordPress blogs, for example), you can subscribe to the feed with a feed reader or an online service like Feedly. New posts will then show up in your reader. It is also the technology behind podcasts. This is how your podcast player knows that new episodes are available. It subscribed to the feeds. RSS can also be used to connect different sites or platforms with one another.
@PaulWeinheimer If your personal website site has a feed, you can use an automation service like IFTTT or Zapier to automatically post (“syndicate”) your updates on other platforms. With the RSS feed of your Mastodon profile, you could, for example, cross-post to Twitter or backup your toots somewhere.
Here’s more general info about RSS:
https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-an-rss-feed-4684568
@matthiasott thank you so much! Really helpful!
doug@matthiasott Playing with this now, thanks. Seems your RSS feed is pretty much instantly updated on my reader, but for some reason the toot is delayed on my mastodon client.
@doug Yeah, I’m also still trying out different mastodon clients/apps at the moment and the speed of updates/notifications varies a lot!
dria
Aurin Azadî@matthiasott TIL! Very cool. Means I could „relay“ my own posts onto my website as a „last toots“ function. 🙂
@atarifrosch Exactly! Or use it to cross-post to other platforms via IFTTT and similar services
@matthiasott I did not. That's a useful feature.
Technical Issues@matthiasott 🤯 I had no idea!
Virtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦@matthiasott Cool. Basically an Activitypub -> RSS translation service.
Chris Bol@matthiasott @arjen and .json also works...
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Rich (RJ)@matthiasott I'd LOVE it if I could have RSS feeds in my timeline (basically doing the opposite of this). Unless there is a way I don't know about
WtfPdf@matthiasott Sadly, *.pdf does not work as expected...yet... 😆 🤣 🤣 🤣
Sven A. Schmidt@matthiasott That might just be a the best way to get a synced timeline until clients support it!
@matthiasott Ah wait - that’s just a feed for my own posts, not my timeline. Still nice though!
Christopher Kruse
Christian Tietze@matthiasott Woah, thanks for sharing that!
PAC2@matthiasott crazy feature ! thanks for the tip.
Darryl Bayliss@matthiasott that's cool!
Mr. Encyclopedia@matthiasott I wish this worked the other way around: put an RSS feed into Mastodon and follow it like it was a user and see its updates on your feed.
Austin => @@matthiasott Note that it does not include replies or boosts. For those, you can use RSS-Bridge: https://ieji.de/@austin/108515347807952409
Austin (=> @[email protected]) (@[email protected])
You can now create #RSS #feeds (with replies and announces/boosts!) for your favourite #ActivityPub accounts (including #Mastodon, #Pleroma and #MissKey) using RSS-Bridge! Try it out today: https://rssbridge.bus-hit.me/?action=display&bridge=Mastodon&canusername=%40austin%40ieji.de&format=Html See https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/pull/2756 #MastoTips #FediTips #fediverse
TaggartRehnn@matthiasott So, if you are on @writing. exchange you write @ writing. exchange
@ [name] . rss or @ mastodon.social @ [name]. rss (no spaces, that I know) to create an RSS feed? Sorry if the question is dumb. Newbie here. Many thanks in advance. Taggart
@ [name] . rss or @ mastodon.social @ [name]. rss (no spaces, that I know) to create an RSS feed? Sorry if the question is dumb. Newbie here. Many thanks in advance. Taggart
Your Helmsman@matthiasott You can do it (create #rssfeed
feeds) with tags too!
Leon Miller@matthiasott
This is a great tip. Thanks for sharing.
This is a great tip. Thanks for sharing.
Thomas Michael Semmler@matthiasott that is fantastic!
Aziz Poonawalla@matthiasott Someone please find Dave Winer and let him know
this is frickin awesome
David O'Brien@matthiasott That’s really useful to know.
RSS is such an underrated medium. Mostly, I think, because it’s “old”.
Old it may be, but still incredibly useful.
GrannyDeanna
litherland@matthiasott Yes! I’m thinking that might be a way I can get around the limitation of only being able to add people I follow to lists. On birdsite I’m accustomed to having topical lists (e.g., COVID, climate) full of subject-matter experts. I wouldn’t necessarily follow all of them on a day-to-day basis.
Troy PattersonBig fan of RSS. I use it every day. I really wish that more people were in tune with it.
Z O R A N G R B I C@matthiasott Interesting!
Jase@matthiasott I did not know that. But now i do. 😀 Thank you.
Clipper Chip 
@matthiasott Now that is fancy. Nice.
@matthiasott Sadly, it does not work for lists.
Alan Brand@matthiasott
Yes, I've been using it since I joined at the end of April. I just went through the feed in Feedly (as you do) and was interested to note the changes in the title formatting as mentioned by @nick
Yes, I've been using it since I joined at the end of April. I just went through the feed in Feedly (as you do) and was interested to note the changes in the title formatting as mentioned by @nick
dr jamesbicycle@matthiasott
It doesn't capture any posts for me. No errors in feed reader.
It doesn't capture any posts for me. No errors in feed reader.
@matthiasott Already better than Twitter
mehulkar (FE)@matthiasott Twitter had this in the early days to if I remember correctly!
Aneesh Sathe@matthiasott @BillSeitz I highly recommend NetNewsWire for reading feeds on iDevices
Kent Brewster@matthiasott same works for .json and now I am having all kinds of hackish thoughts….
@kentbrew and for tags…
@matthiasott It looks like you can add .json to a lot of different Mastodon resources ... now I'm looking for a way to specify the count of items in a feed, or ask for a page number. Back in the day it was pretty simple: count=foo&page=bar. Any clues?
@matthiasott never mind! It looks like I want server/users/username/outbox?page=something, which is giving me a lot more than just new posts.
Tarkus@matthiasott Oh wow, nice. And my first bookmarked post. 👍
Amin Negm-Awad🇪🇺🌍@matthiasott Brilliant!
Paul JacobsonIs that automatic? Our does this need to be enabled on the instance? I tried this with my new profile and my feed reader didn't see the #RSS feed. 🤔
Daryl Chymko@paul @matthiasott
It seems to be working for you. Maybe the reader is taking a bit to sync?:
https://digitalstuntfactory.com/@paul.rss
It seems to be working for you. Maybe the reader is taking a bit to sync?:
https://digitalstuntfactory.com/@paul.rss