Yeah, I know. Throwback! But people still do use RSS feed readers (like myself)
Fun fact: Every Mastodon account has an RSS feed. Just add “.rss” to the end of their public profile URL.
Not this one for me https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission. It always gives me an error “Attempt to invoke virtual method ‘java.lang.String java.lang.String.toString()’ on a null object reference”
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission.rss works fine for me. What reader are you using?
Read You, it is an app on Android. Thank you for trying, I will try with a different reader, maybe it works better.
Seems it was temporary maybe?
I add .rss (note the period) and it works fine.
I’ve had trouble doing this for bot accounts hosted on sportsbots.xyz. Not actually sure if it’s possible with them or not as you can’t access their feeds from that site.
For instance, I use mastodon.world and can access Fabrizio Romano’s feed via mastodon.world/@FabrizioRomano@sportsbots.xyz - but adding .rss on the end doesn’t seem to work, nor does sportsbots.xyz/@FabrizioRomano.rss
So does every Tumblr blog! Just add /RSS to the end of the URL in question. This also works in conjunction with other link modifiers like tags so for example if you want to follow an artist on Tumblr and only see their work and not anything they reblog, or you only want to see stuff from a certain fandom.
Keep in mind that this only works with blog links that look like [blog].Tumblr.com or [blog].com, not tumblr.com/[blog]. it also doesn’t capture tags which is kinda half of tumblr’s main form of interaction, but I think if you’re interested in that you’re the sort of person who actually uses Tumblr and doesn’t just want to keep tabs on one or two artists you really like. Then again that could actually just be an interface thing and an actual RSS feed reader would show them as opposed to my kinda jank thunderbird setup
(I think you can also do this the other way around and turn RSS feed updates into Tumblr posts using like IFTTT, but I have questions for you if you’re doing that for something that isn’t an update blog)
…or you could wait and see if automattic ever does good on their promise to add activitypub integration into Tumblr.
Also on the subject of Tumblr adjacent things, ao3 also has an RSS feed button. For both authors, fics, and tags. Haven’t used it in years but it still works according to the random author updates I get.
Depends a lot on your interests! Some good ones I’ve aggregated over the years:
- Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow: Daily links for reading by a very pro-decentralization and free web person
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry: History and Pop Culture, usually one post per week on Friday
- Pedestrian Observations: Public transportation and urban design
- People’s Policy Project: RSS feed for articles from the only crowd funded think tank (Lefty if you’re interested)
- Bartosz Ciechanowski: Great blog with interesting animations, all very well researched. Only downside is that you usually have to use the RSS feed as a method of knowing when the article is posted and following the link to the website, plus he usually only posts one every 3 months or so
- xkcd: Old guard web comics, always fun to read
There are a lot of great RSS feeds out there though! I encourage you to see if your favorite blogs or news sites or things like that also have RSS feeds and suggest consuming them on there (for example I read CBC and Radio Canada exclusively through RSS) as it usually streamlines the whole reading experience.
If you use Apple’s Ecosystem, I would also suggest using MacStories’ Find RSS Feed Shortcut which will grab any available feeds from any website you feed it and let you copy the link to your clipboard to add to your favorite app. Enjoy!
Saving this post for later! I got started yesterday with Miniflux and didn’t know where to look for good RSS feeds. Can’t have a better timing than this haha!
I whish someone would refer to me a detailed guide to using rss and discovering content.
Regarding using RSS, Inoreader is my favorite recommendation. Here’s a blog post explaining how to get started: https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2022/01/inoreader-tutorial.html
Regarding discovering content - RSS is more about finding something you’re interested in and then adding the RSS feed to your reader. It’s pretty manual rather than fed by an algorithm. You’ll find some good content tips in this thread.
I second this hard, I’d use RSS if i had any idea how, or what content was out there
