Today, a very niche tip for RSS fans :rss:

As well as Mastodon's built-in hashtag following system, you can also follow hashtags through RSS instead:

1. Search for a hashtag on a Mastodon server's website
2. Add .rss to the end of the URL
3. Use this URL as the feed address for that tag

For example to subscribe to on mstdn.social you would use this address in your feed reader:

mstdn.social/tags/dinosaur.rss

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Resol van Lemmy

@feditips I thought RSS didn't exist anymore.

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Sarah Sammis

@feditips maybe this would be a useful approach @actuallyautistic ? Tags in RSS.

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Dr. Ruchira S. Datta

@feditips Great tip, thank you!

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Nick

@feditips Very nice tip!
If you want to embed a timeline or a hashtag in a prettier format I recommend this:
gitlab.com/idotj/mastodon-embe
But there's even more ways to embed toots and feeds listed here:
github.com/andypiper/mastodon-
I really love #foss

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Cavetec

@feditips Nice. I just tried this with newsboat command line interface.
universeodon.com/tags/love.rss
#love

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Philipp Riederer

@feditips I have built github.com/toelke/mastodon2rss to have an RSS feed of my home timeline.
Following a specific tag is very useful though, thanks for the tip!

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@feditips Thank you, I've been trying to work out how to get hashtags in lists but it got messy. Now I can make a folder in the "Brief" extension on Firefox. Excellent. 👍

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Samuel Krahl

@feditips Is it my RSS reader, or do images not come through?

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