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 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.
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 ♥
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.
I am looking to expand my list of rss feeds. What are you favorites? I like science, technology, art, history, books, movies, television... but I am open to expanding those interests and learning something new.
The #Lemmy developers host an AMA, talking about decentralisation, platform identity and a roadmap
@nodebb talks about how they are thinking about what federating forums actually means, and how their implementation of #ActivityPub will look like
Project Tapestry by @Iconfactory is a Kickstarter to build an App that gives you a single chronological feed from a variety of sources, such as #mastodon, #bluesky and #rss
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?)
There are lots of ways you can use #RSS on the Fediverse:
-Follow any Mastodon account's public posts through RSS by putting .rss at the end of their profile URL. Use this address in your feed reader software.
-Follow any PeerTube account or channel by clicking the options menu next to the Subscribe button and selecting RSS.
-If you are on a Friendica server, you can use it as a feed reader. Paste an RSS feed address in the search box, that feed's posts will appear in your home timeline.
Hey netizens, do me a favour: if you have a site and it has a newsfeed (#RSS or #Atom), please check it with https://validator.w3.org/feed/ If it fails the validation, please tell the author of your software about it. If you're the author and you don't understand what the validator is telling you, comment here and I'll try to help (others are welcome to help too!)
The world is full of slightly broken feeds. Let's make it a better place.
Say what you will about the launch of Meta's Threads. But in the frothy, cocktail-party atmosphere of launch night, I was able to nudge a seemingly reticent @dallasnews to create its official Mastodon account. Let's see if I get any traction convincing them to post here or relaunch their dormant RSS feeds.
Give 'em a follow & a hearty welcome to the Fediverse, folks.
🛜 RSS Readers Are Better Than Ever, Thanks to Twitter & Reddit | HowtoGeek.com
"Thankfully, RSS is still in widespread use, and there are still many RSS reader apps and services on every platform. With platforms like Reddit and Twitter locking down access, and algorithmic recommendation engines like Google Discover often filled with junk content, RSS might just be the best way to stay informed about what is important to you."
"To keep us addicted, many of the websites and apps we use fuel the same neural circuitry used by cocaine and slot machines.
But RSS feeds allow you to consume content in a way that's free from any distractions or sneaky cocaine strategies.
They allow you to see only the content you want to read right there in the feed, in its entirety, and without all the fancy ads or triggering comments."
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
I had a Twitter account, but never actively used it. Twitter was basically an #InfoSec newsfeed so I just used #RSS feeds instead. There was no interaction when I was on it. Nobody cared what a peon like me was doing. The algorithm would gladly bury me.
Once Elon bought Twitter, I immediately deleted my stagnant Twitter account.
That also got Mastodon in the news, so I looked into it.
I'd even sent off a few emails to some instances around various #Technology and #LGBT things, but didn't get any replies.
I found infosec.exchange and thought it might be like a LinkedIn thing where you talk about professional stuff with professional people.
My original profile was very formal.
What I found here was not LinkedIn or Twitter or Facebook or Instagram.
This place feels like a cross between old school forums and IRC with a dash of LiveJournal. I half expect to be able to use / emotes or bbcode.
I have conversations here.
I make connections that matter.
I can talk to folks about magick, philosophy, info sec, transgender issues, discordianism, neurodiversity, the environment, politics, horror movies, video games, writing, what books to read, TV shows, the news, sexuality.
Really I can generally find people to talk about anything thanks to hashtags and federation.
I know this place isn't perfect. I know it has massive racism, anti-LGBT, trolling, and spam issues that individual users can't possibly combat alone.
@jerry is a great admin and his team does an impressive job moderating. I give him something like $12 a month ($15 minus fees) for the privilege of using this instance and that's honestly not enough.
I'm glad to be here. I haven't been this involved in any sort of interactive social media since the heyday of #SomethingAwful (I am protected).
Give me your best RSS feeds!
I am looking to expand my list of rss feeds. What are you favorites? I like science, technology, art, history, books, movies, television... but I am open to expanding those interests and learning something new.