lunemercove

witchy girl/virtual snep

^ computer witch ^
^ self-taught 3D modeller ^
^ 🏳️‍⚧️, fan of girls ^
^ old enough ^
^ anarchist 🟥⬛^


see them uncombined here


you can always find me here
lune.gay/
the blog specifically
lune.gay/blog/

ticky
@ticky

apropos of cohost shutting down, I've pledged an ongoing donation to Open RSS, a small nonprofit which advocates for and provides easy access to RSS feeds across multiple otherwise-closed platforms, including Telegram channels, public Bluesky accounts, auto-discovering website feeds, search results, and more

for example, you can take a telegram link like https://t.me/s/outsidewolves, change it to https://openrss.org/t.me/s/outsidewolves, and you get a feed ready to add to your feed reader of choice. it's great.


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in reply to @ticky's post:

I have some questions about use with mastodon and bsky:

Both of these already have RSS feeds, but at least in my reader they don't present ideally. Mastodon shows no title for posts, and doesn't show shares/replies. It looks like most readers are smart enough to put the content in the title if the title is missing, but the other issue remains. Bluesky has similar issues.

OpenRSS fixes a lot of that, but it seems to not go very far back for post history, as well as just missing some posts. In the latter case I think that's an issue of bluesky's auto mod blocking not logged in content (can'tfix), but the former I'm not sure about. I didn't see just a, list of sites OpenRSS supports and/or limitations, so I'm asking here.

It seems like this is potentially a good way to get around some of the limitations mentioned, but the limit of how far back it grabs posts kinda sucks.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're limited in what they can access, especially given on some of these platforms they're probably effectively scraping. For my purposes, following via this works fine because my RSS aggregator will keep the backlog of posts itself.

If you're able to self host, there is also RSSHub and RSS-Bridge, which you can load up your login session and get account only content as well - pending Cloudflare anti-bot protection though.

Another workaround is to use Kill the Newsletter! To direct email newsletters into a subscribable RSS feed.