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Mini resource roundup: Mastodon + ActivityPub + Substack + RSS
“My purpose in gathering this informal, conversational feedback is to bring voices into the “how should Mastodon be” conversation that don’t otherwise get much attention—which I do because I hope it will help designers and developers and community leaders who genuinely want Mastodon to work for more kinds of people refine their understanding of the problem space.”
“ActivityPub, the protocol that powers [the Fediverse/Mastodon], is not private. It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely secure. Worse, anything you post on Mastodon is, once sent, for all intents and purposes completely irrevocable.” Important to know!
In light of Substack’s official stance being “we have to keep the Nazis, and also keep paying them,” time to point out WordPress has a full-fledged newsletter service. Any readers who’ve given it a try and want to report back?
(A regular free WordPress.com blog isn’t too far from this already! Checked recently, and my generic WP blog has 300+ followers, even though I have literally never mentioned it as a subscribeable service before now.)
Hearing good things about the Reeder 5 app for following RSS feeds. Any readers who’ve given that a try and want to report back…? (No need here, I still use Dreamwidth as my RSS reader, and it works great.)
RSS Parrot is an ActivityPub bot that makes RSS feeds into Mastodon-followable accounts! Haven’t tried this either, but if you have Masto and don’t want to download a new app at all, give it a look.
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A handy collection of links, thanks! Hadn't heard of Reeder 5, I've been using RSSOwlnix for a few years now and am very happy with it (older-school UI design, woo), but I shall check this out as the only thing that bugs me about RSSOwlnix these days is that the integrated browser is ancient (I do like being able to open things in there rather than always in my usual browser, used to watch YouTube videos that way before switching to FreeTube).
Edit: Ah, seems Reeder 5 is for Apple users mainly, nevermind hah.