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--- blog:2025:0828blaugust_25 [2025/08/28 02:34] – created scumsuck
+++ blog:2025:0828blaugust_25 [2025/08/28 23:23] (current) – [RSS for Mastodon] scumsuck
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-====== Blaugust 25: Thunderbird and RSSS ======
+====== Blaugust 25: Thunderbird and RSS ======
 [[https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/|Thunderbird]] is a free, open source e-mail manager.
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 Installation was straightforward for me.  Download, install, open up.  Connect the email addresses you want.  And then they're all there.  Protonmail doesn't work though, something about the encryption?  And [[https://proton.me/mail/bridge|the official proton-thunderbird bridge is paywalled]].  Oh well, I'll just log in proton manually.
-So the big thing with me using Betterbird is color coding my inboxes so I don't forget who I am and what I'm replying to.
+So the big thing with me using Betterbird is color coding my inboxes, so I don't forget who I am and what I'm replying to.  To do that, look at the top menu.  //Tools->Account Settings//, you can choose your colors for each account here.
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-Look at the top menu.  Tools->Account Settings, you can choose your colors for each account here.
+Yippee!  Now if you look in your unified inbox, each email will have a color strip to its left to indicate which inbox it's in at a quick glance.
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-Yippee!  Now if you look in your unified inbox, each email will have a color strip to its left to indicate which inbox it's in at a quick glance.
 ===== Change themes: =====
-A lot of the default "themes" for mozilla add-ons now only changes the header and leaves the reading area bright eye-searing white.  You may wish to change the colors to something more pleasant.
+A lot of the default "themes" for Mozilla software (of which Thunderbird was a part of!) only changes the header.  This leaves the reading area a lovely bright eye-searing white.  You may wish to change the colors to something more pleasant if you do not want to stare at the sun all night.
-  * [[https://github.com/catppuccin/thunderbird/|Catpuccin has themes for everything, including Thunderbird]].  Download the .xpi file you want from the [[https://github.com/catppuccin/thunderbird/tree/main/themes|themes folder]], then go to tools->addons and themes->themes->gear button->install add-on from file.  Select the .xpi file you downloaded.  Voila, a better dark mode.
+  * [[https://github.com/catppuccin/thunderbird/|Catpuccin has themes for everything, including Thunderbird]].  Download the .xpi file you want from the [[https://github.com/catppuccin/thunderbird/tree/main/themes|themes folder]], then go to //tools->add-ons// and //themes->themes->gear button->install add-on from file//.  Select the .xpi file you downloaded.  Voila, a better dark mode.
-  * Or [[https://devnodes.in/blog/misc/thunderbird-mail-theme-customize/|customize your own CSS]] if you have time.
+  * Or [[https://devnodes.in/blog/misc/thunderbird-mail-theme-customize/|customize your own CSS]] if you have time.  There's little to no documentation on the classes and id and such.  You have to use inspect element and manually inspect everything to find what you want to change.
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 . Look on the top menu.  Click New->Feed Account.
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 . Copy/paste the url you get for the RSS feed into the Feed URL box.  In my example, it's ''https://nitter.kuuro.net/SKUMSUCK/rss'' for my twitter account.
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 .  Press ok.  Your feed will now start loading.  You will start getting updates in Thunderbird for the RSS feed.
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 ==== RSS for AO3 ====
 You can get updates for your favorite tags and pairings!  Go to [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Dale%20Gribble*s*John%20Redcorn/worksthe tag]] you'd like to follow.  Look for the RSS icon in the top-right corner of the page.
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 Copy that link into your reader (in this case, Betterbird).
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 Voila, now you'll get updates for that tag in your reader.
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 I tried rss.app.  Sign in required, paywalled.  But it works if you want to pay for that lmao.  I think most apps that generate twitter RSS are paywalled cuz the Twitter API is so expensive or whatever.
-**Nitter:**  Nitter is software is a way to access Twitter without logging into twitter.  It will also generate a clean RSS feed.  There is a main Nitter instance, but it doesn't generate RSS for whatever reason.
+**Nitter:**  Nitter is software is a way to access Twitter without logging into twitter.  It will also generate a clean RSS feed.  There is a [[https://nitter.net/|main Nitter instance]] run by the people who made the software, but it doesn't generate RSS for whatever reason.
-  * [[https://nitter.kuuro.net/|The Nitter kuuro instance]] will generate RSS for accounts.  Navigate to the account you want RSS for, then right click->copy link on the signal icon in the corner to get the RSS feed.
+  * NEVER FEAR!  [[https://nitter.kuuro.net/|The Nitter kuuro instance]] will generate RSS for accounts.  Navigate to the account you want RSS for, then right click->copy link on the signal icon in the corner to get the RSS feed.
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   * The images aren't working rn in my case, but maybe they'll fix that LOL.  So this is better for text-only accounts right now.
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   * AND!!  Nitter instances often have aggressive anti-bot/anti-scraper measures, and that will occasionally fuck up links or images.'
   * Still, better than being on Twitter!
-  * In my searches, it seems you need to ask one-on-one to allow nitter to work with your feed reader.  Will investigate further
+  * In my searches for how to get the RSS feed to work, it seems you need to ask one-on-one to allow nitter to work with your feed reader.  Will investigate further
 ====RSS for Tumblr====
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   - So the URL for the feed will be ''https://blorbo.social/@scumsuck.rss''.
   - Put that URL in your reader.  It just works.
+This should work for all Mastodon sites running the Mastodon software, and forks of Mastodon too.  So whether the account is on mastodon.art, or mastodon.social, or aethy, or misskey - it should work if there's a note in the corner of the page saying it's running the Mastodon software.
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+[[https://github.com/gabboman/wafrn/pull/460|WAFRN has a way to create RSS feeds but it's opt-in for the account]]
 The RSS feed will be comprised of public posts and unlisted posts.  It will also show images.  The RSS feed does not include shared posts (retoots) or private posts.
-IDK if the RSS method works for other fediverse stuff like GoToSocial or Misskey or WAFRN, etc.  I'll try that some other time.  [[https://fedi.tips/following-mastodon-and-fediverse-accounts-through-rss/|Read more about RSS and fediverse]].
+[[https://fedi.tips/following-mastodon-and-fediverse-accounts-through-rss/|Read more about RSS and fediverse]].
 ====RSS for personal sites====
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 Otherwise, you can //right click->view source// on the page, and if the webmaster wrote their code correctly the RSS should be in there with a "feed" title, and with one of the ''xml'', ''rss'', or ''atom'' extensions.
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 Example:
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   - There should only be one thing in that mass of code that matches it.  That's the RSS feed.  In this case, it's ''https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCFG7MOrOCsjUKvR-wfFEKhA''.
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 When imported into Thunderbird, it will be a plain text feed.  You will get the title of the video, and a link to the video in your inbox.
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 So click on that video and get to watching without the algorithm hiding shit from you!
-===== The end =====
+===== Conclusion =====
-That's it for now!  I wrote this inbetween trying to install Linux, and it's still just my first day using Thunderbird/Betterbird.  But it's definitely helped clean my mind out.  Hey maybe you can use your RSS reader to follow MY blog's RSS!?!?  Hint hint.
+That's it for now!  I wrote this inbetween trying to install Linux, and it's still just my first day using Thunderbird/Betterbird.  But it's definitely helped clean my mind out.  I'll learn more as I go along, maybe I'll find a more stable RSS method for Twitter.  And I want to try the IRC chat option.  But I don't know any IRC channels to follow!?
+Hey maybe you can use your RSS reader to follow MY blog's RSS!?!?   Usually the RSS
+link is orange, or has a signal image... hint hint.
 ===== Da End =====
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