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 Anyone want to explain the attraction of using mastodon as an RSS reader, which I assume is the point of this post? I think there are more efficient models and platforms for reading RSS feeds. FINDING them may indeed be harder. Many former feeds became siloed paywalls. Still not sure I want to fold rss in into a mastodon thread. I already click thru to too many individual articles that would be much more quickly read just visiting the source site directly. 8 comments
Oh that sounds cool. So if someone you follow on Mastodon, that is basically just bot posts of headlines on a news site for example, you can enter their screename there and see if there is an associated RSS feed? Sometimes they donโt even drop website info in their bio. Oops, it is your OWN screename you enter. Is it all on the instance, or just those you follow (I havenโt gotten into my noggin how local โlocalโ is yet)  @paulcuth @Chancerubbage @mastodonmigration how does your tool learn what RSS feeds a person has? @schizanon @paulcuth @mastodonmigration I donโt know if it is account level or server level. But input is at account. Granularity. Local could mean either afaik. Theoretically youโd index who in the instance has an RSS feed- it could already being โfedโ into Mastodon, at least indirectly. Then cross index. You may be asking about more than theoretical mechanics however @Chancerubbage @paulcuth @mastodonmigration how does one "has an RSS feed"? @schizanon @paulcuth @mastodonmigration Not every website in the world has accesssible Really Simple Syndication hooks. These days you often hear it only known by some primarily as a way to deliver podcasts. Not always kind to someoneโs web metrics. @Chancerubbage @paulcuth @mastodonmigration I see, it uses profile links then? @schizanon @paulcuth @mastodonmigration Iโm thinking profile links, just to keep the total number of rss cross references within a manageable framework. The site may be just using those that the input screename is following, and not looking further. Iโm only taking a wild ass guess as to what theoretically could be feasible. Some mastodon users definitely want mastodon as a sort of everything app, combo rss reader and video and audio. Some might only want microblogging paradigm. Iโve no idea. |
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@Chancerubbage Hi ๐
The aim is to address that discovery issue... you can quickly see which of your connections have RSS feeds, view a preview of those feeds, and then subscribe by opening the page in your usual feed reader app.
I wanted to find feeds closer to home; it's not really meant to be a reader. I certainly could do a better job of explaining that on the site.
//cc @mastodonmigration