RSS Readers Can 'Follow' Hashtags on Mastodon

3 years ago by Leraje to c/fediverse

RSS fans, you can follow hashtags via RSS using the address: (server)/tags/(hashtag without the #).rss For example if you want to follow the hashtag #dogs on mstdn.social you would add this address to your RSS feed reader: https://mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss This will show all the public posts with the tag #dogs that can be seen from mstdn.social, including posts from other servers. (Thank you to @hunkabilly@mas.to for pointing this out!) #RSS #FediTips #MastoTips #Mastodon

Just passing on a tip from FediTips I didn't know about. Using the format

(server)/tags/(hashtag without the #).rss

Your RSS Reader can follow hashtags e.g.

https://mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss

You can see everything with the hashtag 'dogs' on mstd.social and every instance mstdn.social can see.

shaolin_shrimp 6 points 3 years ago

I regret that I stopped using RSS after Google Reader died. Moving my news feeds to Twitter and Reddit was a big mistake.

Long live RSS!

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alex 4 points 3 years ago

You can still come back!

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shaolin_shrimp 2 points 3 years ago

I have and it’s great, using NetNewsWire and Feedly for the time being until I’ve got something self-hosted setup.

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whynotzoidberg 3 points 3 years ago

I just set up FreshRSS, and it works great with NetNewsWire. One of the easier setups.

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homemade_napalm 2 points 3 years ago

Feedbro on FF and Vienna on OS X have been my goto options and they are great.

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A10 3 points 3 years ago

Yes I am in the same boat, but recently resurrected my RSS collection with FreshRSS, the self-hosted application for RSS aggregation. Has many mobile applications, browser-addons etc. Only thing missing is my vast organized collection of websites.

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gredo 2 points 3 years ago

Is this also possible for Lemmy? Would be nice to get Lemmy community posts3in RSS feeds

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leraje 4 points 3 years ago

Feed for this Community is https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/fediverse.xml?sort=Active you can change the sort to suit you.

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