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 ☕️Dec 3, 2022

@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
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 threadCassandrich
@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.
Dec 3, 2022 at 1:56amWeb