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Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:28:49 +0100

sofia ☮️🏴

sofia@chaos.social

i really wish you could just follow and boost RSS feeds on fedi…

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Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:38:02 +0100

Torsten

torsten_torsten@opensocial.at

@sofia ☮️? Can't you do that with #friendica?

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:23:22 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Torsten @sofia ☮️? You can definitely do both with Hubzilla.

For one, you can subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds.

And while you can't directly boost blog posts (Hubzilla hasn't re-introduced boosts yet), there's an optional feature called "Channel Sources". What it does is automatically re-post everything coming in from one or multiple selected connections. This can just as well be an RSS or Atom feed.

This has a few downsides, though. It's fully automated, so it isn't interactive. You have absolutely no control over what goes out, and what it looks like. Your Mastodon connections will have full-blown blog posts or news articles with tens of thousands of characters slammed into their faces with no content warnings.

Besides, Mastodon will mangle them, just like it mangles everything else coming in from Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams): It can't embed images within the text, so it rips them out and throws them after the end of the post in reverse order. And it can only handle a maximum of four images, so only the last four images will remain.

Lastly, AFAIR, Channel Sources does not create a link to the original, so any post or article coming in via feed and forwarded by Channel Sources will appear as if you've written it yourself.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #RSS #Atom #Hubzilla

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:43:08 +0100

Torsten

torsten_torsten@opensocial.at

@Jupiter Rowland @sofia ☮️? thanks for clarifying!