EchoFeed - Cross post your RSS feed to Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog, Discord, and more!

Mastodon Exit Interview

I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media.

blogs.social — Discover the open web

Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.

RSS Feed to Social Media | Fedica

Fedica's RSS Feed to Social Media auto-posts new articles, videos, or podcasts to 13 platforms via Pipeline, with auto-formatting and thread-splitting.

cgillinger/Blueskybot

A bot for posting RSS feed updates to Bluesky using Node.js and Docker.

FediFind: Discover the Open Social Web, Your Way

Live search across Mastodon, Flipboard Social and Bluesky. No algorithm, no walls — your keywords become your feed.

RSS Parrot

Home of RSS Parrot, a free Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into an RSS or Atom feed reader.

burrito.space/bzzrt

Cloudflare worker to watch RSS feeds and post updates to Discord webhooks

Platform Stats — blogs.social

Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.

Mastodon Status Check

My social-media life has been Fediverse-first for a year now. I stick my head into Bluesky and Threads regularly, but visit Twitter rarely if at all. This piece takes a close look at Mastodon-land as things stand in late summer 2023. What’s working, what’s not, what are the alternatives? [Originally published August 2023, updated November 27th for my one-year Twitter-exit anniversary.]

Mastodon - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

Micro.blog - @danielpunkass

A Bluesky feed for one · Adam Wiggins

I built a custom feed for Bluesky that trains a model on my past interactions. Here's what I learned about RecSys and social media feeds generally.

Feedrabbit - RSS and Atom web feed to email service

Follow your favorite blogs, news sites and comics by email. No apps to install, no extra sites to visit, your email is never shared, you are in control.

Private and Public Mastodon

Here’s how to get into a lot of trouble: Suppose you (like me) love the intellectual wealth found in free-form text on the Internet. And (like me) are a reasonably competent programmer. And (like me) have derived value and pleasure searching Twitter. And (like me) you look at this nifty new Fediverse thing and see that it has nice Web APIs so you could build an app to vacuum up all the stories and laments and cheers and dunks and love letters and index ’em and let everyone search ’em and find wonderful things! So you lurch into the Mastodon conversation, all excited, and blurt out “Hey folks, I’m gonna index all this stuff and let the world in!” That’s when you get your face torn off.

Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You

Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.