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.

@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 -- 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
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.

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@mood @AlexGizis

what's wrong with that? 😉

@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 !

@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.

@davew @AlexGizis hear hear !! reader was some real extend/embrace/extinguish crap