you can;t even IMAGINE what it is


YuushaRuby
@YuushaRuby

Rosting and email are my vision of the future. Rosting or “RSS direct posting” is publishing content directly to an RSS feed. You can just do that.

\ http://rubymayvalentine.net/rss.xml

You can even use escape sequences to do html inside of a “rost.”

The utopia I imagine is all of us with our feed readers of choice hosting our own rss feeds and rosting and emailing each other. Maybe some of us even use IRC or XMPP to communicate. The future can be realized.

Here’s my most recent “rost.” Only people who are subscribed to my rss feed (or read the plaintext xml file like some sort of freak) can view this. It’s not on my blog or anything you know.* You can post directly to rss. You can rost.

*sort of a bad example but this is a slightly modified version of my post that’s almost identical on cohost

Sort of like how “you can send someone a voicemail directly” this is a somewhat unexplored and not often mentioned detail about rss except it’s infinitely better than voicemail.


	<item>
			<title>Advertisement</title>
			<description>
				<![CDATA[
				<p><i>Template engine? Static site generator? JavaScript?</i> </p>

<p>Not on rubymayvalentine.net. We only offer organic, hand-coded, homegrown, css, xml, and html.</p> ]]>
			</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<link>https://rubymayvalentine.net</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">rost#26</guid>
		</item>```

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in reply to @YuushaRuby's post:

Yeah I tried out fraidycat and wasn’t a fan. Luckily there’s a lot of rss readers out there that can scrape web pages/build from things like Twitter and what not! If you’re comfortable with self hosting a web based reader I recommend freshrss in combination with Tailscale

Hey I love the idea and wanna try this for myself with a friend to share thoughts and whatnot! Do you think it is compatible with a blog made with a CMS or whatever, or should I make a rss feed specifically for this (and if so, are there editors out there or should I make it manually?)? Thanks!

I’m not sure how your CMS works, but if it autogenerates your rss feed it might be tricky to make posts only to the rss feed unless your CMS lets you do that specifically. If you make a separate RSS feed you’ll likely need to edit it by hand. I know of at least this spreadsheet based rss generator, but I’m not sure about others, I’m not familiar with spreadsheets so I’m not sure how it works https://cohost.org/Cro/post/7705087-link-data-chunk-cl