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Did you know that #Mastodon supports #RSS feeds?

That means you can follow your favorite people and topics right inside of Thunderbird!

→ Just add ".rss" to the URL ←

For example, our Mastodon URL "mastodon.online/@thunderbird"

becomes

"mastodon.online/@thunderbird.r…"

What about #hashtags? YEP!

Let's look at #OpenSource. From our instance, it is: "mastodon.online/tags/opensourc…"

So, we just append .rss and it works!

"mastodon.online/tags/opensourc…"

REALLY useful if you don't want to miss a thing!

A screenshot of posts within the open source hashtag on Mastodon being read with Thunderbird, thanks to RSS.
A screenshot of Thunderbird's Mastodon account posts being displayed inside of Thunderbird. this is made possible by RSS feeds.

Mastodon

A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.online
#opensource #Mastodon #hashtags #RSS
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Joé McKen
Joé McKen
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Did not know that. As an RSS fanatic, that’s brilliant.
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@joemcken You could even organize various account and hashtag feeds inside of subfolders if you wanted to get really crazy!
@Joé McKen
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Joé McKen
Joé McKen
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Oh, I already use folders and subfolders like a maniac. I gotta, what with my – <checks> – 393 feeds 😂
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@joemcken *Whistle* That's impressive. @killyourfm (the person running this account) only has about 180.
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Joé McKen
Joé McKen
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@killyourfm Admittedly, 105 are YouTube creators (I follow them via RSS too since YouTube push notifications are so unreliable), and another 123 are artists I follow on a particular site. Rest is all over the place.
@Seasons of Jason
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@trtmn Awesome. That's what we're here to do!
@Fishy ~ %
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Dylan Bragg
Dylan Bragg
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Hey! Thunderbird! Old buddy, I haven't seen you for years. Figured you got settled down in the suburbs and had kids or something.
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Gérard
Gérard
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whoa! Let’s hope that it’s not going to put too much load on the instances :) it would also be nice if mastodon would act as an rss reader.
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@it_dwarf Awesome, and it's our pleasure!
@Marco Marchi
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rob
rob
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Yep. I use RSS when I want to follow an account's postings without signaling to them as a follower.
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jomarm
jomarm
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Wow - Thunderbird supports RSS?! I’ve been using Thunderbird for the plaintext email and PGP signing, but I just learned a few days ago that it also supports Matrix, and just now viewing RSS! I visit Mastodon frequently and don’t follow many users yet so I don’t think I’ll need this for Mastodon yet, but it will be useful in other platforms.
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@jomarm We're loaded up with features!

Pro-tip: You can easily add YouTube/PeerTube channels, organize feeds into subfolders, and even use uBlock Origin to blocks ads and creepy trackers: github.com/gorhill/uBlock/rele…


Releases · gorhill/uBlock

uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlock
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Andrew C. White
Andrew C. White
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Apparently this does not work with lists however. Is there a trick to making it work with lists?
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Christian Horn
Christian Horn
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I think when following the rss-stream, the user will not notice that at all though - so if everybody does that we end up with all feeds and people thinking noone follows them..
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Joshua Chalifour
Joshua Chalifour
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This could also be useful in a case where there's a Mastodon account that you're occasionally interested in but don't really want to follow on a regular basis.
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熊柄秋子 (Akiko)
熊柄秋子 (Akiko)
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I use my RSS feed(s) to mirror my posts to a Discord channel, with the help of pipedream.com

There are a lot of cool things that can be done with this feature. I hope more people can find helpful ways to use it.

A preview of a Discord channel with postings of Mastodon URLs via the RSS feeds of multiple accounts.
A workflow from pipedream.com which allows RSS feed items from Mastodon to be posted on Discord by a webhook message.
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Frank Schindelbeck
Frank Schindelbeck
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If I would like to follow a Hashtag it is only possible to follow that term on on specific instance, right?
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@lukaspieper Yes! It may not be implemented on Day 1, but we'll be doing it.
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Jan Martin Keil
Jan Martin Keil
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Much to learn about Mastodon. And this feature is awesome. Really wished several times to be able to subscribe to or even to see some channels on other platforms or even media without having to register.

#Mastodon #RSS #TwitterMigration #Instagram

#Mastodon #Instagram #RSS #twittermigration
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Doug Bostrom
Doug Bostrom
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Really helpful to know.

Thunderbird's excellent support of RSS makes a weekly assignment for which I'm responsible -much- more sustainable than otherwise. Not quite at an existential level, but pretty close.

Hence, taking this opportunity to say Thank You Very Much!

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@Doug_Bostrom Well, you are absolutely welcome! I think we can do more to make the RSS functionality better though.

One of the things we're looking at is syncing your RSS feeds sometime after Firefox Sync gets enabled (just not at launch).

@Doug Bostrom
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