@paulcuth@astro_jcm the NUMBER of people on here who have asked me if I have an RSS feed for my space newsletter (I do!) and also I use RSS myself. Thank you!!
@paulcuth Hey Paul, really love the site but I’m a bit confused by the decision to proxy all feeds through the site rather than setting the original feed in the head to be picked up by feed readers (and adding “rss is dead lol” to the title). It worries me that it’s another step and possible failure point if someone subscribes to my feed that way.
@paulcuth Also (and this falls into the failure point I mentioned) subscribing to my feed this way doesn’t work and shows nothing. Someone might subscribe and assume they’ll get new posts but they won’t.
@robb I'm not sure why subscribing to your own feed didn't work though, it should be exactly the same experience as subscribing directly on the page linked in the profile.
Fwiw, I subscribed to your feed fine using Inoreader. What reader are you using?
@paulcuth Apologies - you are doing exactly what I thought (in my tired state I must have looked at it wrong). I think what's happening is NetNewsWire isn't looking for a feed because the URL ends with .xml
And apologies for the title thing, again I think this might be a NNW issue not looking for the actual feed.
I'm not sure how to get around this - I tried with additional query strings on the end but it still picks up the page as a feed but NNW is pretty popular on iOS/Mac so it'd be good to come up with something.
Obviously I have no idea how the site works but I'm thinking encoding the feed URL with base64 or something would fix it because the it wouldn't end with “.xml”
It looks like some readers display the page title in the "Subscribe to feed?" prompt, rather than the feed title. They seem to use the feed title once subscribed, but I agree it's confusing.
I've now removed the site title from the page, so hopefully that will help. (Pages are cached for an hour, so you may still see it for a little bit.)
Anyone want to explain the attraction of using mastodon as an RSS reader, which I assume is the point of this post?
I think there are more efficient models and platforms for reading RSS feeds.
FINDING them may indeed be harder. Many former feeds became siloed paywalls.
Still not sure I want to fold rss in into a mastodon thread. I already click thru to too many individual articles that would be much more quickly read just visiting the source site directly.
The aim is to address that discovery issue... you can quickly see which of your connections have RSS feeds, view a preview of those feeds, and then subscribe by opening the page in your usual feed reader app.
I wanted to find feeds closer to home; it's not really meant to be a reader. I certainly could do a better job of explaining that on the site.
Not every website in the world has accesssible Really Simple Syndication hooks. These days you often hear it only known by some primarily as a way to deliver podcasts. Not always kind to someone’s web metrics.
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