Mastodon Links 2 RSS
Mastodon works great as a non-algorithmic, timeline oriented social media feed. But it can be hard to catch up with the most popular topics of the day if one follows many people and didn’t have time to stay on top of it. On a per-post level, there is Adam Hill’s fediview, which aggregates popular posts and sends them over via email in regular intervals.
While this works well for finding “viral” posts, it doesn’t work so well for identifying “viral links” – that is links that are frequently shared around by being independently posted by multiple people, instead of being boosted after a single person shared it. Which is why I made Masto Links 2 RSS in an attempt to solve this, by doing daily aggregates of the links that were posted most often into your Mastodon timeline. And instead of sending out the commonly shared links via email, it creates an RSS feed with them, so that you can easily browse them in your feed reader.
You can read more about it in my blog post about it. And you can find the tool here:
- I have a small self-hosted instance of it here, if you want to just give it a try
- It’s released as open source here, if you want to host your own.
If you notice anything that could be improved, please feel free to open an issue on Codeberg. Or even better, I’m always happy to accept contributions to it!
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