Richard MacManusAre there any RSS Readers that are trying to integrate ActivityPub too? Pondering the glut of email newsletters in our inboxes these days, and wondering if we are due for an RSS Reader renaissance, except with a fediverse twist this time…
Tim Chambers@ricmac I thought @NetNewsWire had this on their roadmap…
@tchambers @NetNewsWire Ohhh, I hope so
@ricmac @NetNewsWire Hi Brent @brentsimmons - did I remember this right? Is ActivityPub support on the roadmap for #NetNewsWire?
Gabriele Pollara@tchambers @ricmac @NetNewsWire @brentsimmons this would be so good. Portability of RSS feeds without setting it all up again between providers.
Brent Simmons@tchambers @ricmac @NetNewsWire The answer required a blog post. :) https://inessential.com/2023/12/17/on_mastodon_support_in_netnewswire
@brentsimmons @ricmac @NetNewsWire Lots of great thinking here - and do think your direction here makes sense….
@brentsimmons @ricmac @NetNewsWire Maybe the experience should be as you said a seamless reading experience …but if you enter a mastodon account it grabs the RSS automatically for reading, but then if you wish to interact there is UI that links to Mastodon web UX to interact….
Philip@brentsimmons Regarding improving the Mastodon RSS experience, is it possible, without complicating the rest of the way the app works, to expand/load links from the posts in Reader View?
For example, your toot that I'm replying to. If I load that in NNW, it's just a short item with a link. Can Reader View load the blog post? One way I use Mastodon RSS is accounts that post interesting links, would be nice to be able to read those links in-app.
Too awkward/different?
Matthias Pfefferle@brentsimmons @tchambers @ricmac @NetNewsWire what about to support the ActivityStreams format besides of RSS, kind of in the same way as you already did with JSONFeed?
```
curl "https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle" \
-H 'Accept: application/activity+json'
```
That would make NetNewsWire a generic ActivityPub compatible reader without changing the experience?!?
Marcel Weiß@pfefferle @brentsimmons @tchambers @ricmac @NetNewsWire
Blows my mind (in a bad way) that no feedreader has implemented that yet. Such a low hanging fruit, no? What are we missing here?
mr_lars@brentsimmons @tchambers @ricmac @NetNewsWire
This is why I asked to transform the json of the public feed in a RSS output.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21500
I think it would be useful to have a server as a "magazine" if the admin allows it.
Great for exploration of topics and user discovery.
