floppy @floppy@fosstodon.org

I remember the days when it was much more common to have a "Links" section on websites with recommendations and partners.

"Look at those websites! I don't get money from anyone, I just want them to be known better. If you enjoy my stuff, you might enjoy their stuff, too."

Dear Hivemind, #AskMastodon

Common problem: I am reading a lot of articles on certain topics, but not all turn out to be interesting to me. I would like to have some tool helping me to filter out paragraphs or full articles. Does anyone have a recommendation? Thanks!

For example, I could imagine a browser addon that highlights texts or generates a word cloud, where word size is based on general and webpage-specific word frequency. Words like "the" fade away and very specific words get marked.

"The FBI found Eric Marques by breaking the famed anonymity service Tor, and officials won’t reveal if a vulnerability was used. That has activists and lawyers concerned."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/

@fribbledom I really like the approach of the Programming Language World Championships. I find a general ranking problematic, but I love the creative spirit and the effort you put into this! #plwc2020

Thanks @alciregi for pointing me to Nitter again! I am using the project (and Invidous) already. I didn't think of it, because I couldn't spot anything related to RSS so far. But as checking the project page turned it, RSS is apparently part of their core features.

I just learned that Nitter offers RSS feeds!

Append "/rss" to the URL of the account you're interested in, so it looks like:

http_s://nitter.net/<name>/rss

@alciregi

By using http://twitrss.me one could subscribe with RSS to the tweets of a Twitter account. There are projects that let a bot tweet from (multiple) RSS feeds, e.g. using https://gitlab.com/chaica/feed2toot .

So it is possible and even self-hosting both parts is possible. However can somebody think of a better way?

Do not burn me as I dare to ask the unspeakable: #AskMastodon

In theory, is there a smart way to have tweets from a set of Twitter accounts show up in my Mastodon home timeline?

I refuse to get a Twitter account, since Twitter refused my registration attempts with privacy-enhanced browsers and without giving away personal data I deem irrelevant to Twitter.

So I turned to good old RSS and started using http://twitrss.me/ to be able to follow Twitter accounts. Works pleasingly well.