List of RSS feeds distributed by each software on Fediverse
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Introduction
As far as I know, the software used by Fediverse, a decentralized social networking site, makes information public due to its decentralized nature, and as a result, it's often possible to obtain feeds of the latest information via RSS.
However, the extent to which this is possible varies depending on the software's capabilities and features, and I was interested in the functionality of each piece of software, so I decided to write this article to research and summarize the state of RSS on Fediverse, including its URL structure.
This article is based on a pioneering article titled "Finding Fediverse Feeds" that appeared on the website Hyperborea: Kelson Vibber.
Stream Fediverse feeds to your RSS reader
URL Structure Table
Software Section URL type Title visible links RSS Subscriptions from External Servers Lemmy Community /feeds/c/{community}.xml?sort={sort}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes No Lemmy User /feeds/u/{username}.xml?sort={sort}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes No Lemmy Local Timeline /feeds/local.xml?sort={sort}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes No Lemmy All Timeline /feeds/all.xml?sort={sort}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes No Lemmy Your front page /feeds/front.xml/{jwt_token}RSS 2.0 Yes No - Lemmy Your inbox /feeds/inbox.xml/{jwt_token}RSS 2.0 Yes No - Lemmy Your modlog /feeds/modlog.xml/{jwt_token}RSS 2.0 Yes No - PieFed Community /community/{community}/feedRSS 2.0 Yes Yes Yes PieFed User /u/{username}/feedRSS 2.0 Yes No Yes PieFed Topic /topic/{topic}.rssRSS 2.0 Yes No Uninvestigated PieFed Feeds /f/{feeds}.rssRSS 2.0? Yes? No Uninvestigated Mbin Community /rss?magazine={community}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Mbin User /rss?user={username}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Mbin Tag /rss?tag={tag}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Plume Blog /~/{blog}/atom.xmlAtom Yes Yes Details unknown Plume User /~/{username}/atom.xmlAtom Yes Yes Details unknown WriteFreely User /{username}/feed/RSS 2.0 Yes No Details unknown WriteFreely Reader /read/feed/RSS 2.0 Yes No Details unknown Funkwhale User /api/v1/channels/{user}/rssRSS2.0 Yes Yes Details unknown PeerTube User feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId={channel}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes Yes PeerTube User-Podcast /feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId={channel}RSS 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Bookwyrm User /user/{username}/rssRSS 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Mastodon User /@{username}.rssRSS 2.0 No No No Mastodon Hashtag /tags/{hashtag}.rssRSS 2.0 No No No Mastodon User-Hashtag /@{username}/tagged/{hashtag}.rssRSS 2.0 No No No Pleroma User /users/{username}/feed.atomAtom Yes No External accounts cannot be viewed BlueSky User /profile/{did-placeholder}/rssRSS 2.0 No No External instance does not exist Misskey User /@{username}.rssRSS 2.0 partially (example: "New note by UserName") No Yes Misskey User /@{username}.atomAtom 1.0 partially (example: "New note by UserName") No Yes Pixelfed User /users/{username}.atomAtom Yes Yes External accounts cannot be viewed HackersPub User /@{username}/feed.xmlAtom Yes No External accounts cannot be viewed HackersPub User Articles /@{username}/feed.xml?articlesAtom Yes No External accounts cannot be viewed Hubzilla Posts and Comments /feed/{channel}Atom No No External accounts cannot be viewed Hubzilla Only Posts /feed/{channel}?f=&top=1Atom No No accounts are displayed in summary only friendica User /feed/{username}/Atom Yes Yes External accounts cannot be viewed friendica User Comments /feed/{username}/commentsAtom Yes No External accounts cannot be viewed friendica User Timeline /feed/{username}/activityAtom Yes No External accounts cannot be viewed 説明
Below are descriptions of the columns in the table above.
- Software
- The software you are using.
- Section
- Which feed for that software?
- URL
- The URL structure.
- Type
- The file type. This indicates whether it is RSS or Atom.
- Title
- Whether the post title is displayed in the RSS feed.
- Visible Links
- Whether the RSS link is visible on the instance.
- RSS Subscriptions from External Servers
- Whether you can subscribe to RSS feeds from users of external instances.
Feed Functionality Comparison
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Software that only contains the user's RSS feed
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Software that exists beyond user RSS feeds
- Lemmy
- Community
- User
- Local Timeline
- All Timeline
- Your front page
- Your inbox
- Your modlog
- PieFed
- Community
- User
- Topic
- Feeds
- Mbin
- Community
- User
- Tag
- Plume
- Blog
- User
- WriteFreely
- Blog
- User
- Mastodon
- User
- Hashtag
- User-Hashtag
- Hubzilla
- Posts and Comments
- Only Posts
- PeerTube
- User
- User Podcast
- HackersPub
- User
- User Article
- friendica
- User
- User Comments
- User Timeline
- Software without RSS
- Lemmy
Reference
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Fediverse in general
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Lemmy
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Mastodon
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Misskey
Sort on Lemmy
/feeds/c/{community}.xml?sort={sort}
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{sort}part of Lemmy in the RSS list above corresponds to the "URL" column in the table below.example:
/feeds/c/{community}.xml?sort=New
Type Description url Active (default) Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time Active Hot Like active, but uses time when the post was published Hot Scaled Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities Scaled New Shows most recent posts first New Old Shows oldest posts first Old Most Comments Shows posts with highest number of comments first MostComments New Comments Bumps posts to the top when they are created or receive a new reply, analogous to the sorting of traditional forums NewComments Top Hour Highest scoring posts during the last 1 hour TopHour Top Six Hours Highest scoring posts during the last 6 hours TopSixHour Top Twelve Hours Highest scoring posts during the last 12 hours TopTwelveHour Top Day Highest scoring posts during the last 24 hours TopDay Top Week Highest scoring posts during the last 7 days TopWeek Top Month Highest scoring posts during the last 30 days TopMonth Top Three Months Highest scoring posts during the last 3 months TopThreeMonths Top Six Months Highest scoring posts during the last 6 months TopSixMonths Top Nine Months Highest scoring posts during the last 9 months TopNineMonths Top Year Highest scoring posts during the last 12 months TopYear Top All Time Highest scoring posts of all time TopAll Source: Votes and Ranking
Stream RSS feeds to Your Fediverse Feeds
A well-known method of distributing RSS feeds from the web to ActivityPub is software (server) called RSSParrot, which was created for that purpose.
In addition, in the Japanese-speaking world, there is a public Mastodon instance called the RSSフィードbot鯖, which is dedicated to RSS Bots and is also widely used.
Original article
FediverseのRSS事情 - URL構造の一覧など - hoageckoのブログ (Article in Japanese)
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Oh I see. Yes, AP first apps would be great, but getting older apps connected via AP is important too.
NodeBB predates ActivityPub (or came around the same time), and so we added it recently. It works quite well with our existing code. Not much of a compatibility layer.
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The mastodon api, or the lemmy api, or the xyz api. Eagh platform has its own. Being public doesn't make it standard, hence the "proprietary" qualifier
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What is this proprietary layer you speak of?
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That's because AP as it is implemented today is crap, it's a superficial compatibility layer on top of a proprietary (as in, doing non-standardized stuff) platform. We need to take it on its head and make AP the actual core then build on top but that requires some work
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This is something I believe the ActivityPub API can tackle...
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While LOLA is great, I'd really love an established handshake mechanism for having two accounts on two bespoke services represent the same user.
For example, I want to have a pixel fed and mastodon presence that can be authored between the two. However, you currently can't make two accounts that are effectively linked to each other. I feel like this linking is important for further decentralizing the fediverse (by effectively decentralizing the user itself)
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To my knowledge, one must be an "invited expert" in order to join these discussions.
However, the working group is only one aspect. The community group has been in existence for a number of years. I am part of that group (although I admit I don't go to as many meetings as I ought to), and try to represent the threadiverse as best as I can.
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Are the Lemmy and piefed devs going to be a part of this? We need some representation so its not all addressing micro blogging things
