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> 95% of the people who leave RSS, and I ask everybody who cancels why they're canceling, leave it because they get their news from social media. Social filteri

by panic 8y ago

> 95% of the people who leave RSS, and I ask everybody who cancels why they're canceling, leave it because they get their news from social media. Social filtering provides a higher signal than the manual process. I don't blame them. I wonder if it would make sense for RSS readers to include ActivityPub support (or vice versa). Obviously most people's friends aren't on Mastodon or whatever, but it would be cool to see the social feed alongside RSS updates.

boastful_inaba 8y ago
Mastodon supports ATOM natively actually. I'm subscribed to one guy's feed that way right now!
- mxuribe 8y ago
  curious, how does one go about "subscribing" to a person's feed via mastodon? Isn't the subscription input value normally someUser@someInstance.net (or https://someInstance.net/someUser https://someInstance.net/someUser)??
  - boastful_inaba 8y ago
    Well, just copy+paste their base user URL into your feed reader. I believe the feeds are in the header tags, so your reader will find them and present you with the options. For example, copying https://mastodon.social/@b_cavello https://mastodon.social/@b_cavello (the URL for the main Mastodon artist) will allow you to subscribe to either https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.atom https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.atom or https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.rss https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.rss in your reader.
  - WorldMaker 8y ago
    You just add .atom to the web address (often referred to as the "full profile" page in Mastodon UI). So https://some-instance.net/some-user.atom https://some-instance.net/some-user.atom The full profile page itself also has the usual RSS Auto-Discovery META tags so that most feed readers will accept the profile page address itself and figure out the ATOM feed from that. The only other twist would be for feed readers to add WebFinger support which would allow them to auto-discover the "full profile" page from the @some-user@some-instance.net style address. I don't think any feed readers have added that yet.

by panic 8y ago

boastful_inaba 8y ago

Mastodon supports ATOM natively actually. I'm subscribed to one guy's feed that way right now!

mxuribe 8y ago
curious, how does one go about "subscribing" to a person's feed via mastodon? Isn't the subscription input value normally someUser@someInstance.net (or https://someInstance.net/someUser https://someInstance.net/someUser)??
- boastful_inaba 8y ago
  Well, just copy+paste their base user URL into your feed reader. I believe the feeds are in the header tags, so your reader will find them and present you with the options. For example, copying https://mastodon.social/@b_cavello https://mastodon.social/@b_cavello (the URL for the main Mastodon artist) will allow you to subscribe to either https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.atom https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.atom or https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.rss https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.rss in your reader.
- WorldMaker 8y ago
  You just add .atom to the web address (often referred to as the "full profile" page in Mastodon UI). So https://some-instance.net/some-user.atom https://some-instance.net/some-user.atom The full profile page itself also has the usual RSS Auto-Discovery META tags so that most feed readers will accept the profile page address itself and figure out the ATOM feed from that. The only other twist would be for feed readers to add WebFinger support which would allow them to auto-discover the "full profile" page from the @some-user@some-instance.net style address. I don't think any feed readers have added that yet.