If you want to archive your Mastodon or other app/site feed posts into Obsidian as separate post entries, I wrote a post about how to use the Simple RSS plugin to do that. I cover Mastodon and Grav RSS feeds. I've done the best I can do for now with instructions and a big thank you goes out to simple rss dev Monnier Antoine for being super helpful.
In recent weeks, a few posts had appeared on the #asstodon tag that were of butts, not donkeys, and controversy ensued.
Here it is worth describing some key features of #Mastodon in additional detail.
First, #federation, and #feeds:
As noted, each user is hosted on a specific #server; and this #network of servers comprises Mastodon.
Each user has a personal feed; a “home/neighborhood” feed; and a “federated” feed.
Because of how federation stitches together a user’s experience from the vantage point of their home server, views looking outward to the network vary.
While one can follow individual users across other servers,
👉whether one sees the posts of users one does not follow in one’s personal and “federated” feeds is dictated by interactions and follows across servers.
A user on a very small instance
— and some are as small as a dozen users, or even a single user
— would not see posts from other servers in their “federated” feed unless their instance-mates were following users across each of those servers.
Some servers also choose to, at the server level, silence other servers, often because of lax or poor moderation that home moderators fear will affect their own home users.
Depending on whether this is a silencing or a full block, a user can personally follow another individual user on another instance;
but unless they have a pre-existing reason to know about that user, they might be unlikely to ever encounter them.
By contrast, very large servers, some with over 50,000 users, have quite a lot of activity right at home, before even federating outward.
Those users will see a very lively feed on the “home/neighborhood” feed; and a much bigger pool of posts can be seen on the “federated” feed, as it will be populated by people across many remote servers with whom “home” server-mates interact.
Miniflux 2.1.0 just dropped, including many, many accessibility improvements: there are now landmarks throughout, controls that act as buttons now use the role of button (this still needs work. Semantic HTML, please), skip links, feed entries are now headings, and much, much more! https://miniflux.app/#RSS#accessibility#Miniflux#feeds
I think websites that have an infinite scrolling feed (Mastodon and YouTube in this case) are ruining my brain. 😩
Sitting down with a book feels boring in comparison to the excitement of what I could find if I just keep scrolling. 😅 So many interesting posts to find, so many videos to watch!
So I mayyyyy need to start limiting the amount of time I spend on Mastodon and YouTube lol 😂
I'm starting a #Fediverse project, if anyone's interested, where I get content which is not being posted to #Mastodon and set up an RSS feed bridge.
So if there's some content or there's some organisation which is not on the Fediverse and you think it should be, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
I mean it's always going to be an unofficial reposting of other people's content, and some people may object and ask to shut it down, but maybe it will alert them to the huge audience and the alternatives to Twitter, etc.
The ultimate success of this project would be for it to shut down completely!
Anyone got any #RSS#feeds from trustworthy #news organisations or #jurnalists ? Trying to move away from algorithms and this seems like a good enough option for the most part. Mostly interested in world/European news.
I've been very happy with the Jinhao fountain pens I have in my pen collection. Working on them and with them I've collected some information that's useful to me and put it in a blog post.
#tooot ist perfekt für geeks, die sehr viele funktionen nutzen und alles für sie massgeschneidert einstellen möchten.
Man kann sich detailliert einstellen, was man in seinen #feeds sehen möchte. Und einzigartig gut ist, dass man sogar ganzen #instanzen folgen kann.
I remember in the early days Twitter had RSS #feeds for almost any aspect of its site, including feeds for specific searches. This feature no longer exists.
Sometimes I have trouble getting to sleep at night. Some nights I don’t sleep at all. Tonight was one of them. Apparently insomnia is more prevalent among autistic people but I can’t blame my autism tonight. No, I dosed myself with too much caffeine because Final Fantasy XVI released at midnight last night.
Catherine and I have both been looking forward to the game, especially once a demo became available a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been a FF fan since I was 12 and after Cat and I got married she got dragged into it.
It’s also how she got into power metal and symphonic metal.
She doesn’t have the patience to play the games herself, but likes to watch the cutscenes. She’s there for the music and melodrama. But since she’s a sensible woman and wasn’t jacked up on caffeine she eventually needed to go to bed.
I joined her rather than play without her. Except I couldn’t get to sleep. My usual methods didn’t work. I ended up reading the last third of Fires of Azeroth by C. J. Cherryh with a little USB-charged reading light on its dimmest tolerable setting. I got up twenty minutes ago because in addition to the birdsong outside the house’s open windows I could hear our dog scratching at the door because she wanted out. Never mind that it was around ten after five in the morning.
Maybe she wanted to go out and piss before the garbage trucks started traversing the neighborhood? She always gets a little crazy on Thursdays; we suspect but can’t prove that big trucks are part of the reason our rescue dog is such a trauma puppy.
Regardless, I’m awake and having some more caffeine. My usual bottle of cold-brewed matcha in the morning should keep me going until nightfall and as long as I don’t have any more caffeine later I should be able to sleep tonight.
‘Cause I’m not 19 anymore. I got away with going three nights without sleep to play Final Fantasy VII back then, but I’m entirely too old to even consider such insanity now.
The game will still be there if I sleep tonight, as will my day job. But I’m damned well taking today off from work. Not to worry; I had told management I intended to take today off a few weeks ago.
There’s just the question of how to amuse myself while I wait for Catherine to wake up. I still don’t want to play when she’s not around to enjoy the story.
I guess I’ll tinker with my website. I’ve been meaning to change the way I generate my links page; I want to be able to generate an OPML file, mainly so that I can import my subscriptions into any feed reader that will process OPML. I figure others might find such a file useful as well. And if not, tough shit; it’s my website and I’ll do with it as I please.
And I’m all over the place, rambling into my text editor. This, kids, is why you shouldn’t ingest any caffeine after noon if you want to get a decent night’s sleep. At least the dog is settled and I’ve got a cat in my lap.
I've been rediscovering RSS feeds and Feeder has been a delight! I'm curious what other feed readers folks are using and what interesting feeds folks are following?
Hopefully enough folks see this who use RSS feeds to respond