@zhuowei I've seen Mastodon in DOS, in Windows 3.11, on Commodore 64, but Outlook takes the cake.

@ygalanter @zhuowei really? I hate to ask how this works because I don’t think I’d get it - anyone want to explain it like I’m 5.

@RebeccaPRN @ygalanter @zhuowei I'll give it a shot :) RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a way of sharing information in a standardized format. RSS reader software can subscribe to an RSS feed from any site that provides it. This was the best way to keep up with blogs, when that was more of a thing. Using an RSS reader feels similar to getting emails from everything you've subscribed to. In this case, Outlook's RSS reader is subscribed to the feed of Gargron's posts on Mastodon.

@RebeccaPRN @ygalanter @zhuowei I ran out of characters - should probably also add that an RSS feed is made up of "articles," or individual pieces of content. An article might be a blog post, an image, or... a toot :)