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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

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.

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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