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Show HN: Using Mastodon as a RSS Reader

by jehna1 on 4/6/23, 6:59 PM with 5 comments

• by rakoo on 4/6/23, 9:24 PM

  For reference, here are two similar projects: - one by Darius Kazemi, the creator of Hometown, a fork of Mastodon with a focus on local community: https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub - my very own, assuming one is comfortable with setting up their own not account: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/rss2ap/

  Darius has a very interesting reasoning on why the service isn't available to everyone: it is too easy to spam, overload and in general do harm on upstream websites. I tend to agree with him, and I'm not sure this project has elements to convince me otherwise. But if I'm wrong, all the better !

• by NoraCodes on 4/6/23, 8:15 PM

  Hmm, this does present actors but doesn't seem to present posts (for, for instance, https://cohost.org/example/rss/public.atom as @cohost.org.example.rss.public@mastofeeder.com)

  EDIT: Never mind, it's just slow. Some constructive criticism: maybe make the posts not public, so they don't flood the federated timeline at creation?