Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
I guess this is turning into a real project so putting this out there if anyones interested:
We're making a very lightweight tool to create RSS feeds for journals from crossref metadata (with room for other sources). If ya dont know, many publishers are shutting down their RSS feeds to drive people onto their surveillance platforms, and every enshittification leaves behind an opening for adversarial interop.
This opens some interesting possibilities like creating feeds for keywords indexed across journals to start breaking down journals as the major organizational scheme of scholarly lit - papers have metadata keywords, but they mostly arent used, so lets use them!
Eventually wed like to write a FastAPI plugin similar to activitypub-express so we can make all feeds available on the fedi as well, and that would be a really nice set of tools to build for smaller AP projects that dont necessarily want to be full instances.
This is designed to be extremely deployable so you can run your own feed generator, but we'll also host a reference instance here at feeds.neuromatch.social once we get it running.
Just getting started, help wanted and welcome from anyone who loves #RSS and reading papers ♥
Why do some websites not have one or more #RSS feeds. Do they feel they will get more traffic forcing people to visit their site everyday? Is it ad related? Not sure how to implement? Perhaps just don’t know about RSS feeds (feeds are old school right?)
Does anyone here use Reeder 5? I'm giving RSS feeds a try and am having problems with the “Subscribe with Reeder" extension in Safari.
For example, if I try to sub to the NintendoLife news feed by clicking on the Reeder extension, it gives me a “server not found" error and only picks up the standard non-feed URL of “https://www.nintendolife.com/news”
Vous vous souvenez des flux #rss, ces vieux machins un peu passés de mode? Sachez que ça pourrait être un formidable outil de veille, de recherche sur le fédiverse. Tout ici peut être rssable ! Vous en avez marre de scroller à la recherche d'un pouet posté il y a qques jours? Avec un lecteur de flux rss, dorénavant, vous récupérerez tous vos pouets. Suffit de rajouter .rss à l'adresse affichée par votre navigateur. Hashtag, compte, fil spécifique, ça marche avec (presque) tout. #astuce#tips
I love #RSS. My RSS feed reader is the page I visit most on web, I think. So it's very frustrating when folks update their site, but don't redirect their RSS feed - please remember to do it, people. https://kevquirk.com/dont-change-your-rss-url
Ouais, j'en veux beaucoup à Mozilla d'avoir retiré, il y a quelques années, l'affichage automatique de l'icône RSS de Firefox quand un flux est détecté dans une page.
#android#rss
Jusqu'à présent je consultais mon instance FreshRSS via le web. Je me suis décidé à installer une appli Android.
Après quelques essais, celle qui me convient le mieux est Readrops.
Simple, pratique, efficace, moderne, pas d'espace gaspillé à l'écran.
J'ai juste un bricolage maison dans Automate pour déclencher la mise à jour des flux (je ne voulais pas l'automatiser côté serveur).
So, I wanted to do a client-site embed of my #Mastodon#RSS feed via #XSLT into a page of my website, without using #JavaScript, but I'm having serious doubts that this is possible at all … anybody had any luck with this? #askFedi#fediHelp
Auch wenn #Mastodon keine algorithmische #Timeline hat, gibt es gute Möglichkeiten, die interessantesten/beliebtesten/besten(?) Beiträge darin leicht zu finden:
Can #podcasting be made to work with #ActivityPub as well as #RSS? Then podcatchers could work like a #Mastodon client, allowing us to interact directly via comments, favorites and spreading around the best episodes via boosts. #podcasts
update: it exists but no podcatcher fully supports it yet.
i do not understand why a news site would not have an #RSS feed of their latest headlines.
you don't have to give your content away if you don't want to. but you cannot bitch & moan about #facebook or #twitter cannibalizing your readership in their fascist gated communities when you've turned your back on web standards and the open web.
Other than looking at server logs, is there any way to tell how many people subscribe to an #RSS feed?
Are there any big aggregators which give out that information?
The thing is that #RSS is the best. Social media sites don't like RSS because it breeds independence. Which is exactly why #creators should be using and promoting RSS. You can whine about the #algorithm or you can work on freeing your self from its clutches.