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Looks great! I have been actively reducing my blog and social media exposure and this might help clean up the remaining experience even more. Somewhat tangenti

Looks great! I have been actively reducing my blog and social media exposure and this might help clean up the remaining experience even more. Somewhat tangential: does anyone know if there is a way to subscribe to the local timeline RSS feed (or even federated!) of a specific Mastodon instance? Individual users have RSS feeds but I could not find a timeline feed yet.

adparadox 4y ago
I don't think there is an RSS feed, but looks like there is a JSON endpoint: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17269 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17269. Even more tangential, I've been building an algorithmic digest of Mastodon (supports home, local, or federated) at https://fediview.com/ https://fediview.com/. It might be interesting if you want a summary of Mastodon posts. Adding in RSS support might even be possible at some point.
- foreverCarlos 4y ago
  Very cool! Makes me wish your solution was integrated into OP’s app (or vice-versa). This looks like the future of clean, customizable online content consumption. One feature I would like to explore more is making algorithms completely customizable (as an advanced option perhaps). I.e. allowing changing all params manually in addition to being able to use your presets.
  - wb14123 4y ago
    I don't have plan to support customize format in RSS Brain for now. But personally I use feeds from RSSHub (https://rsshub.app/ https://rsshub.app/) a lot. It's very easy to add a customizable feed to RSSHub (https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-new-rss-rule-add-route https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-ne...). About the cutomizable params, it would be more complex since that means each person's articles need to have difference scores, which multiplies the storage and computation a lot. But on some level the priority of articles is customizable: you can provide customized "upvotes" for each of the articles in a customized RSS feed (an example to provide these fields in RSSHub: https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-new-rss-rule-code-the-script-produce-rss-feed-interactions https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-ne...), which will affect the final sorting of the articles.
mikae1 4y ago
RSS support in Mastodon is extremely rudimentary. What I'm missing even more is a single Atom or RSS feed for the people I follow from my account. On Reddit my account specific feed can be found at an URL that looks like this: https://old.reddit.com/.rss?feed=SECRET&user=USERNAME https://old.reddit.com/.rss?feed=SECRET&user=USERNAME On Pinboard it's at: https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/secret:SECRET/u:USERNAME/ https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/secret:SECRET/u:USERNAME/ Adding a feed for every single person I follow to my feed reader (and manually keeping it in sync with what what my account actually follows) is not a solution that works.
- foreverCarlos 4y ago
  Agreed! I assumed that that would be a more advanced feature but definitely would want that. Local timeline RSS should be an easy change (note to self: time to contribute!).
password4321 4y ago
This project aggregating posts shut down quickly due to the backlash: https://mastinator.com https://mastinator.com There are several expectations decreed by the community; for example: search has been specifically rejected.

adparadox 4y ago

I don't think there is an RSS feed, but looks like there is a JSON endpoint: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17269 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17269. Even more tangential, I've been building an algorithmic digest of Mastodon (supports home, local, or federated) at https://fediview.com/ https://fediview.com/. It might be interesting if you want a summary of Mastodon posts. Adding in RSS support might even be possible at some point.

foreverCarlos 4y ago
Very cool! Makes me wish your solution was integrated into OP’s app (or vice-versa). This looks like the future of clean, customizable online content consumption. One feature I would like to explore more is making algorithms completely customizable (as an advanced option perhaps). I.e. allowing changing all params manually in addition to being able to use your presets.
- wb14123 4y ago
  I don't have plan to support customize format in RSS Brain for now. But personally I use feeds from RSSHub (https://rsshub.app/ https://rsshub.app/) a lot. It's very easy to add a customizable feed to RSSHub (https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-new-rss-rule-add-route https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-ne...). About the cutomizable params, it would be more complex since that means each person's articles need to have difference scores, which multiplies the storage and computation a lot. But on some level the priority of articles is customizable: you can provide customized "upvotes" for each of the articles in a customized RSS feed (an example to provide these fields in RSSHub: https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-new-rss-rule-code-the-script-produce-rss-feed-interactions https://docs.rsshub.app/en/joinus/quick-start.html#submit-ne...), which will affect the final sorting of the articles.

mikae1 4y ago

RSS support in Mastodon is extremely rudimentary. What I'm missing even more is a single Atom or RSS feed for the people I follow from my account. On Reddit my account specific feed can be found at an URL that looks like this: https://old.reddit.com/.rss?feed=SECRET&user=USERNAME https://old.reddit.com/.rss?feed=SECRET&user=USERNAME On Pinboard it's at: https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/secret:SECRET/u:USERNAME/ https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/secret:SECRET/u:USERNAME/ Adding a feed for every single person I follow to my feed reader (and manually keeping it in sync with what what my account actually follows) is not a solution that works.

foreverCarlos 4y ago
Agreed! I assumed that that would be a more advanced feature but definitely would want that. Local timeline RSS should be an easy change (note to self: time to contribute!).

password4321 4y ago

This project aggregating posts shut down quickly due to the backlash: https://mastinator.com https://mastinator.com There are several expectations decreed by the community; for example: search has been specifically rejected.