Remember when this was a standard feature of social websites?<p><i>If you want to read a person's updates without signing up for Twitter, or without visiting the site, just use the rss feed to subscribe. If your page is public, any one with a feed reader can subscribe to your feed and see your latest updates in their feed reader, even if they don't have a Twitter account. The feed contains the information you see on the page, but in a special format for easy aggregation.</i> (2011)<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110228080118/http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/107-my-profile-account-settings/articles/15361-how-to-find-your-rss-feed" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20110228080118/http://support.tw...</a><p><i>A news aggregator is the best way to keep track of all the feeds you care about. Facebook will generate an RSS Feed that you can save to your bookmarks folder and view in your browser. You will now have an auto-updating RSS Feed that alerts you of important things on Facebook involving your account.</i> (2008)<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080908073106/http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=23" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20080908073106/http://www.facebo...</a>
Note that every subreddit and every Youtube channel is also an RSS feed. I have to imagine that some rogue engineeers snuck that functionality in over a decade ago and that it's simply escaped the notice of any PMs or bean counters since then.
And it's a good thing too since post version 3 mastadon instances do not serve HTML text or images. It's all just a javascript application. The RSS feed is the only way to actually access the text of posts without executing an arbitrary application. It'd be nice if there was a "nitter" for twitter but for mastadon(s).
In other news, the blog of the RSS Advisory Board, inactive since 2014, started getting updates again :) It was a pleasant surprise seeing new articles from them pop up in my feed reader again after such a long time.
I noticed recently that I get more engagement on Mastodon than Twitter. It shifted in the last couple months as I have been posting to both the same content.
Follow a hashtag on Mastodon also creates an RSS feed you can subscribe to.<p>For example, if you're on mastodon.social and follow the #a11y hashtag, you can subscribe to mastodon.social/tags/a11y.rss<p>Very handy.
Every twitter user also has an rss feed... <a href="https://nitter.net/twitter/rss" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nitter.net/twitter/rss</a>
Mastodon instances have RSS feeds where each item links to it original location on its original instance, not the instance where you got the feed. This is useless for engagement, because you have to jump through hoops to reply to a post.<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74579163/how-to-resolve-mastodon-toot-urls-appearing-in-rss-to-a-specific-instance" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74579163/how-to-resolve-...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/Riduidel/mastodon-rss/issues/7">https://github.com/Riduidel/mastodon-rss/issues/7</a><p>The issue states that there isn't an API for it. What isn't needed is an API to resolve a foreign toot to the local one, but for the Mastodon instance to make available the local feeds in RSS form in the first place. There is no logical reason that you can see local toots on some hashtag topics in the web UI, or an app, but not in RSS.
Does not seem to be the case for users on instances that use Akkoma or Pleroma, and probably other non-mastodon frontends. E.g. <a href="https://social.kernel.org/torvalds.rss" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://social.kernel.org/torvalds.rss</a>
So does every HN user<p><a href="https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds</a><p>Edit: it’s 3rd party, though . . .
Speaking of owning your content, I’ve been looking for a blogging solution that would:<p>- Be statically generated<p>- Be self-hosted<p>- Have a fantastic iOS app<p>- Make authoring posts containing media effortless<p>And nothing that I find comes even close. Can someone just build this?
You can also create an RSS feed from your FastComments account!<p><a href="https://blog.fastcomments.com/(7-08-2020)-create-an-rss-feed-from-your-comments.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.fastcomments.com/(7-08-2020)-create-an-rss-feed...</a><p>Just a little feature I added because I know some people love RSS.
Lists don’t, though. It is easy enough to get that going if you use the API (which I did, obviously), and feels like something the platform could easily add.<p>(I consume a couple of my lists almost exclusively via RSS, and the result is a bit like following a couple of curated news sites)
Annoyingly, gotosocial appears to gate off RSS behind `enable_rss` in the database accessible only by an (undocumented) extension to the `update_credentials` API call. Tch. That could do with being exposed to the command line account mangler.
I use mine [0] to post Mastodon to Twitter via IFTTT\<p>[0] <a href="https://amazingcto.social/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://amazingcto.social/</a>
From my preliminary investigation of Lemmy, it does seem to have RSS feeds for communities, but could not find them for individual posts - which is a bit of a shame.
i don’t think rss comes close to scaling. every single subscriber will poll every single thing every 30 minutes (or whatever). this was a crushing amount of traffic 20 years ago when the web was much, much smaller…