Agreed 100% I use RSS everywhere possible. Mastodon should have a RSS Feed link on every instance by default ! No way I'll use email as notification. F email !
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2021
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Mastodon has rss for profiles, add. rss at the end
Good to know, Thanks for sharing. Regardless, a RSS Feed icon link in the frontend would be handy.
It only works for public toots though. It would be nice if I could subscribe via mastodon and get a private RSS URL that included toots (including private) from everyone that I follow.
I also like email, I would like if I could get emailed every toot. (But my RSS goes to my email so that works for me)
You want to get an RSS feed for all your subscriptions? I think PeerTube does that now. Maybe open an issue for Mastodon as I have no idea if anybody has ever asked for that before.
That's cool! Last I checked peertube doesn't support subscribing to mastodon accounts though. Maybe I'll try it out. Most of my friends aren't using peertube though so the private content isn't as useful to me there.
Ah yes. Well at the same time they are different services. Marston is mainly for text, although short video and audio clips can be uploaded too. PeerTube is only for video (VOD and now live).
the day that normies start using federated networks like mastodon or using RSS feed readers will be nothing but a pipe dream that is a guarantee there will always be a few people like us but if it ever dose become main stream it will only be shown in negative light hell i bet your bottom that they will try to slander even you as alt right
Mastodon should have a RSS Feed link on every instance by default.
+1 for always using RSS in some form, but I only recently stopped using free services like feedly to set up my own miniflux server. I think RSS is just one part of a larger picture, bur there are a couple of things that spring to mind to would help adoption -
- Webhosts or ISP need to provide one-click app stores for hosting setup.
- Techy family members need to promote and be willing to maintain services
- Devs need to make auto-updates, management a straightforward process.
I could install a miniflux instance if I wanted, but I gladly pay the 15$ / year for paid hosting to support the project.
Re: the first point I installed nextcloud via a one-click app installer on my host and it made the process effortless, no ssh needed.
I have just started using RSS, but I'm currently using newsblur. It is cross platform, but I don't know whether it preserves the users digital rights.
Can you get an rss feed of lemmy's content?
Theres a little rss icon next to Subscribe / Local / All, e.g. https://lemmy.ml/feeds/local.xml?sort=Active
Thanks!
I never stopped using RSS, I thought it's still very common. I use my Nextcloud's RSS reader and there are clients for many platforms that can sync with it.
Great post. I love RSS and I'm so sad to see it underutilised.
I believe that our digital rights are: the right to privacy, the right to autonomy over our tools (free and right to repair), right to internet access and right to free speech. For RSS readers, we only have to inspect whether the right to privacy and right to autonomy over tools is preserved.
so umm, you wanna exchange your rss feeds with me?
aha ha, just kidding..
unless..?
there are self-hosted options out there, but these are too complicated for every day users. How are feedly and feeder as RSS readers for someone with a low/non existent privacy threat model?