So I think the PR to add support for Twtxt to Mastodon is probably not going to happen by the looks of it 😢 But OTOH I discovered / found out that Mastodon actually has RSS feeds? Can anyone confirm? How does this work? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net What are you trying to do?
Having the timeline from a Mastodon instance as a twtxt.txt file ?
@eaplmx@twtxt.net At this point I’m just curious. Do you know how to access/view the RSS feed of a Mastodon user? 🤔
So with the help of a good ‘ol friend (no longer active on Yarn.social / Twtxt, we miss you buddy 😅) I’ve figured out how Mastodon RSS works and it looks pretty reasonable as a 1-way Mastodon -> RSS -> Twtxt which we can then use in any valid Twtxt client. Seems to work rather nicely 👌
@prologic@twtxt.net plannning a new feature for feeds.twtxt.net ?
@marado@twtxt.net Yes 😅
@mckinley@twtxt.net Thanks! Figured that out too 👌
@mckinley@twtxt.net I never used it… It looks like it shows a limited amount of toots (I don’t know if it’s limited by num of toots or by date range)
@eaplmx@twtxt.net Yes but that won’t matter as the Feeds service will basically poll the RSS feed and track it over time writing new Twts into the Twtxt feed 👌 – This would already work as-is if you just shove in the .rss URI, but I’m going to add first-class support for this with something like: mastodon:user@server
@marado@tilde.pt @mckinley@twtxt.net and anyone else interested. This PR is merged and rolled out to the Feeds service/instance I run 👌
@prologic@twtxt.net oh, I see ejat I did wrong, extra @
@marado@twtxt.net Should we support both?
@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t know enough about mastodon to be sure
@marado@twtxt.net I think the fact that you used two at symbols probably tells me that maybe we should support both forms? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net Well, I just went to confirm, and people are referring to their presence on mastodon with the initial @, so… yes, better support both formats!
@marado@twtxt.net Patch incoming! 👌
Done 👌 by the time you read this the update should have gone out 🤞