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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 rysiek@mstdn.social

I see quite a lot of posts expressing concern if The Public will follow their authors' over on here.

Here's the thing: they don't even have to. Every account has an feed. For example, here's mine:
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss

Every hashtag has an RSS feed as well (as seen from a given instance), for example:
https://mstdn.social/tags/Science.rss

Your audiences can follow you without ever setting up an account on fedi, with any RSS reader.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 rysiek@mstdn.social

Obviously is more than just Mastodon. I am not sure if and offer RSS feeds of accounts and hashtags — would love input here!

I know some other fedi instance software also does offer RSS feeds. For example, @Castopod does: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/feed.xml

Anyone who knows about RSS support in other fedi instance software, please do jump in and share!

Kazriko kazriko
@rysiek On Pleroma, just go to the user page on their server, then you can view source to find the atom feed. Should work in all the same rss readers.

Kazriko kazriko
@rysiek https://example.com/users/username/feed.atom << An example pattern that matches my server, but looking at the view source is the most reliable way.
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Mina meena@cathode.church

@kazriko @rysiek remember when browsers showed you a button for that?

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 rysiek@mstdn.social

@meena yes! I still cannot forgive Mozilla for removing that button from Firefox. Absolutely bonkers decision.

@kazriko

person person72443@mastodon.social

@rysiek if the Muskification of Twitter brings about the resurrection of RSS readers, I will be *thrilled*

nickapos clubtwit nickapos@twit.social

@person72443 @rysiek more mastodon users mean more RSS content, so that is one step to the right direction