Dave Winer ☕️Dec 3, 2022

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.

Show threadAlex GizisDec 3, 2022
@davew 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
Show threadDave Winer ☕️

@AlexGizis -- 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

Users as advocates

It's even worse than it appears..

Scripting News
Dec 3, 2022 at 12:58amWeb
Show threadAlex GizisDec 3, 2022
@davew thanks, i see. i assume they’ll crash twitter before they open it up, but it would be better if opened like that!
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 3, 2022
@AlexGizis -- glad you agree! 🙂
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 3, 2022
@AlexGizis -- here's another angle. the more people read via RSS, the more options there will be beyond Mastodon. Because RSS is easier to support than Activity Pub and a lot more devs already understand how it works.
Show threadCassandrichDec 3, 2022
@davew @AlexGizis RSS is a consume-only flow. I'd much rather build communities with bidirectional interaction and discovery. But it does have its place too and I'm glad the 'don supports it.
Show threadKingsley Uyi IdehenDec 3, 2022

@davew,

Here's yet another angle:

#RSS solves for publication and syndication of posts.

See: https://tinyurl.com/bdex5wys

#ActivityPub solves for Activity Streams which goes beyond posts.

See: https://tinyurl.com/2mxk3rjh

Ultimately, #HTTP software agents will be able to process structured data consuming either.

In my case, it all ends up in a #KnowledgeGraph (using a bookmarking-like interaction pattern). All the data is accessible via #SQL, #SPARQL, #GraphQL, etc..

/cc @AlexGizis @judell

About: Had a busy day experimenting with #gptChat. Here's a summary, generated by our #DataTwingler bot. https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/twingler/?uri=https://twitter.com/kidehen/status/1598804598663389184/cc @judell #ExplainableAI #KnowledgeGraph #SemanticWeb #Web30 #LinkedData #OpenWeb

Show thread64 mastodonz logistics co-opDec 3, 2022
@davew lol old enough to remember when this WAS a twitter feature!
Show threadAndrew Dec 3, 2022

@davew @AlexGizis FYI Nitter, which is an alternative front-end for Twitter, supports RSS!

Like Mastodon, it has multiple instances, so if you were to use one of the more popular ones:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/elonmusk/rss

would be the .rss feed for the twitter account of a certain fella

Show threadS★m V★rm★Dec 3, 2022
@davew @spiritedpause @AlexGizis @paul @JPEGuin next question is: do the masto clients support following rss and adding those feeds to your timeline? If so, wouldn’t that mean that you can thus follow folks who haven’t migrated over here yet?
Show threadAlex GizisDec 3, 2022
@samvarma @davew @spiritedpause @paul @JPEGuin Not in mastodon, but Friendica (a facebook style activitypub app) supports it. You can follow RSS feeds like they're users:
Show threadAlex GizisDec 3, 2022
@samvarma @davew @spiritedpause @paul @JPEGuin Other way around but there's an ActivityPub plugin for wordpress that turns wordpress blogs into full blown bots over here, that a lot of people like (but it's activitypub instead of RSS): https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
ActivityPub

Connect your site to the Open Social Web and let millions of users follow, share, and interact with your content from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and more.

WordPress.org
Show threadDenman RookeDec 4, 2022
@AlexGizis @samvarma @davew @spiritedpause @paul @JPEGuin ooh that's cool.
Show threadAndrew Dec 3, 2022
@AlexGizis @samvarma @davew @paul @JPEGuin yeah friendica is the closest thing i’ve been able to find to that functionality, but I find Friendica too buggy to use over Mastodon.
Show threadAndrew Dec 3, 2022
@AlexGizis @samvarma @davew @paul @JPEGuin There's also https://mastofeed.org/ , but it looks to be one feed at a time.
MastoFeed - Send your RSS Feeds to Mastodon

Automated and super easy tool to send the content from your RSS Feeds to any Mastodon instance. We do it all for you.

Show threadS★m V★rm★Dec 3, 2022
@AlexGizis @spiritedpause @davew @JPEGuin @paul opportunity knocks… for someone :D Thanks for passing that on!
Show threadAnne @annevelink_adDec 3, 2022

@davew

oh thats a revelation !

Show threadgarden center gothDec 4, 2022
@davew @AlexGizis twitter would be re adding a feature they removed 12 years ago https://sociable.co/social-media/twitter-hasnt-killed-rss-just-yet-heres-how-to-find-your-twitter-feed-rss-url/
Twitter hasn't killed RSS just yet, here's how to find your Twitter feed RSS url

Since redesigning its site Twitter has been accused of killing its previously open ecosystem. The focus of the accusations comes from Twitter's removal of RSS feeds on each user's profile. Twitter has said this is a design glitch that will be fixed but until that happens, if it ever will, there still are ways to get access a Twitter user's RSS feed.

The Sociable
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 4, 2022

@mood @AlexGizis

what's wrong with that? 😉

Show threadgarden center gothDec 4, 2022
@davew @AlexGizis absolutely nothing, i was mad as hell when they killed it and considered it a big nail in the coffin of widespread rss use !
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 4, 2022

@mood @AlexGizis

i think at least half the blame goes to Google Reader which made title-less posts look like errors.

they were real assholes about not supporting all of RSS.

asshole being a technical term for someone who works at a big company who refuses to work with anyone who isn't part of a big company.

Show threadgarden center gothDec 4, 2022
@davew @AlexGizis hear hear !! reader was some real extend/embrace/extinguish crap
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 4, 2022

@mood @AlexGizis

exactly!!!