@researchbuzz You mention that Facebook used to have RSS feeds. Did you realise that Twitter used to, too?
I followed maybe half a dozen people on Twitter that way for a while. When I wanted to add another I thought, bugger it, and actually created a Twitter account (in 2009). Can't remember when they stopped but feeds were gone by the time I stopped using Twitter in 2017.
I will be seriously bereft when YouTube stops supporting RSS (Atom, actually).
@chrisshaw@edavies Back in 2010, there was a very excellent Twitter tool called ListiMonkey that let you monitor Twitter lists for keywords. It was AMAZING. Naturally Twitter killed it.
Then there was Nuzzel, which aggregated links for Twitter lists and accounts you followed. UNBELIEVABLY useful. Acquired by Twitter and killed off in 2021.
There's lots of ways to extract content from Twitter without feeds full of tweets, but they keep getting destroyed.
I haven't explored the idea of full-text search because it seems to be antithetical to Fediverse culture without serious opting-in, and I don't have the resources to gather consent.
On the other hand, Mastodon is VERY hashtag-friendly and Google exists, so I made a couple of tools. 1/2
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