Your occasional reminder that a large share of the fediverse actually exposes RSS feeds

Your occasional reminder that a large share of the fediverse actually exposes RSS feeds

Try adding .rss to any account, like https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy.rss

Or to any tag, like https://mastodon.derg.nz/tags/test.rss

#FediTips

I also think people underestimate how incredibly neat it is that all these RSS feeds are available.

Want to integrate your Fedi posts on your private website, but don't want to iframe a whole website, or parse HTML messes or import weird libraries to render a basic feed? You can just use RSS! Easy basic XML ready to be used anywhere.

You can also use this to put up a feed in your house with whatever; news, cat pics, weather, you name it, just find a tag/account and frame it w/ an arduino/raspi

@anthropy I'm sure to those who use it regularly find it quite useful but to me rss just sounds gimmicky and more of a cool party trick then anything I can actually find useful.

like email to me is just the way I reset my long forgotten passwords and once in a blue moon I'll go through it to see how people are failing to scam me next.

@anthropy I'm going to have to open the browser or app anyways in order to reply or post so might as well just start with that (for me at least).

@loganer well that's the neat part; you don't.

the raw XML reply means you can integrate it in many places, you could use extremely basic devices to fetch and render it, and again you can integrate it into many places, also beyond browsers.

For instance on a PC you could have a script that renders it as part of your wallpaper (we used to do that kind of stuff more haha), or integrate it into other apps; RSS readers are far more ubiquitous than even browsers, even the most basic arduinos work

@anthropy maybe I'm just blind but I've only seen RSS feed clients doing the reading part but never seen one with a post/reply/write functionality.

@loganer replying/writing is difficult without logging in yea, but as RSS is just raw XML you can use it in many interesting ways

for instance, you could easily build a script that automatically applies the latest cat/etc picture from the cat, dog, or other creature tags as wallpaper, or put it in a picture frame.

Or you could find a weather account and always have the latest weather + warnings + etc without ever needing an API key or whatever.

Or you could integrate your fedi on your website

@anthropy already have a nice wallpaper and I don't want it changing, I have the weather widget on kde as well as the android weather app.

@anthropy already have a nice wallpaper and I don't want it changing, I have the weather widget on kde as well as the android weather app.