Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras  ·  last month
As everyone talks about #RSS thanks to @pluralistic 's essay: Some weeks ago I started a little project to help me find interesting stuff to read based on my Mastodon timeline.

I made a very small web app that grabs all the links that are posted in my Mastodon timeline on a given day and at the end of the day aggregates the most frequently posted ones into an RSS feed that updates each night. So in the morning I have a nice little digest.

Code & details are here: https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/mastolink2rss

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras  ·  last month
It's very cobbled together, but it already works quite well for scratching my own itch.

The only settings/options implemented so far are the number of links it will output for a given day and if for each aggregated link it should also link back to the original Mastodon posts in which those links were shared or not. I find having that latter option nice, as it can allow going back to see what people said about the link (and give credit for who helped me discover that particular link).

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras  ·  last month
At the same time, if you plan to share your RSS feed with others, you might not want to include those backlinks. On that note: It's not designed to be a permanent archive or index, all crawled links are subject to being regularly purged as the goal is to have a temporary digest that's useful short-term.