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 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 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★
@AlexGizis @spiritedpause @davew @JPEGuin @paul opportunity knocks… for someone :D Thanks for passing that on!
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