drakonis

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heavy metal scientist. sometimes literally. fountain pen enjoyer. queer and more than old enough to remember when you couldn't use the internet and your home phone at the same time


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ldx
@ldx

since becoming an RSS Guy™️ one thing I’ve noticed is all the rss readers I’ve tried are really invested in the read/unread status of posts, which is just not something I care about

it’s weird - is it just because it’s a Number you can show? do they secretly want to be making email clients? I don’t know but it’s kind of annoying to constantly have a “1,352 unread articles” indicator

also when the new follow page was released here I saw a lot of people compare it to rss but I’ve actually not seen an rss reader that has a view like that - I wish I knew of one because that would be great! (@staff let me subscribe to rss feeds on the following page and I’ll never open another tab again (jk… unless))


obspogon
@obspogon

try fraidycat. that's basically what it is. you can even sort and organize sources.

as for the other thing, every cohost blog has a rss feed. mine for instance is https://cohost.org/obspogon/rss/public.atom. so if you just put all pages you're following into a rss reader...

(if you're going to fetch a lot of rss feeds i'd recommend getting an extension like this firefox one i use to fetch the feed urls for you)


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insane concept for an app once the public API comes out: cohost rss reader like, you tell it what rss feeds to follow and it posts all of those into posts on a page on your account...

so like you'd have @ldx-rss or whatever handle you want and then the app would post all rss updates to @ldx-rss which you could then follow or just switch over to to see the posts

mainly for reading blogs about game crit and game making (including yours! :D), some news sites, a few webcomics, some tumblrs and substacks, etc

the things that really got me into it was following every blog critical distance linked to and installing a plug-in on Firefox that shows when sites I’m on have a feed

I’ve never gotten into IRC tho so I can’t help you there ;)

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