@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

@AlexGizis @davew Because he invented it.

@AlexGizis @davew Another reason is that rss readers have a notion of read/unread post, an advanced feature that most social apps have been unable to replicate.

@piccolbo @davew that’s because rss articles have headlines that expand to the full thing when you click them. Mastodon and twitter are just little messages the size of headlines so it makes little sense. activitypub has Articles vs Notes, but mastodon just does notes because that’s what they want.

@piccolbo @davew i see that the RSS is nifty for integration: based on this discussion, i just used the Slack RSS integration to send a bunch of the mastodon hashtag rss feeds into a channel where the #speedify marketing people hangout. If we suddenly start trending we’ll know it! [This toot doubles as a test of the system!]

@davew @piccolbo w00t! Thanks Dave, you’ve brought mastodon into my Slack through RSS. Probably not your exact goal, but i still appreciate it!