feditips,
@feditips@mstdn.social avatar

Today, a very niche tip for RSS fans :rss:

As well as Mastodon's built-in hashtag following system, you can also follow hashtags through RSS instead:

  1. Search for a hashtag on a Mastodon server's website
  2. Add .rss to the end of the URL
  3. Use this URL as the feed address for that tag

For example to subscribe to on mstdn.social you would use this address in your feed reader:

https://mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss

pussreboots,
@pussreboots@sfba.social avatar

@feditips maybe this would be a useful approach @actuallyautistic ? Tags in RSS.

resol,
@resol@mastodon.social avatar

@feditips I thought RSS didn't exist anymore.

samsantaella,
@samsantaella@urbanists.social avatar

@resol @feditips Oh they exist. I've used up 120 of my 150 free feeds in @Inoreader. (Old-fashioned RSS readers are still out there too, even on smartphones.)

resol,
@resol@mastodon.social avatar

@samsantaella @feditips @Inoreader I'm glad they're still around, because they basically are an early imitation of the whole fediverse concept if that's even considered imitating.

feditips,
@feditips@mstdn.social avatar

@resol @samsantaella @Inoreader

RSS is an open standard so it's unlikely to ever go away. For example @thunderbird still supports RSS as one of its forms of communication.

dct,

@feditips @thunderbird @Inoreader @samsantaella @resol

Support for reading RSS as well as ActivityPub is why I ended up choosing Friendica over Mastodon. RSS articles appear in my feed just like Fediverse posts. It's very handy.

StevenSaus,
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@dct @feditips @thunderbird @Inoreader @samsantaella @resol

Interesting! I view it almost completely oppositely (the RSS feeds I read are separate from social media on purpose, even though I often use RSS to glue things together); I'm glad there's options.

dct,

@StevenSaus @thunderbird @Inoreader @samsantaella @resol @feditips I used to keep them in Feedly but found with Lists (called Circles in Friendica but same thing) that I could separate by topics or feeds or whatever and eliminate one more service. A side benefit is that Feedly has limited client platform support whereas Fedi has good support everywhere I want to be. The only thing I miss from my RSS reader is the mark as read functionality. For me that isn't a deal breaker though.

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