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--- blog:2025:0828blaugust_25 [2025/08/28 02:59] – [Conclusion] scumsuck
+++ blog:2025:0828blaugust_25 [2025/08/29 19:29] (current) – [Blaugust 25: Thunderbird and RSS] scumsuck
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 [[https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/|Thunderbird]] is a free, open source e-mail manager.
-**Why use Thunderbird over just logging into gmail or whatever?** It has extra features for compiling RSS feeds, and also IRC chat.  I am interested in those extra features so I'm not so reliant on google, discord, and other social medias.  I also wish to separate my e-mails (which is mostly work stuff) from my browser habits (which is mostly "fun" stuff like social media and watching videos).  And I want to see all my emails from all my inboxes at once.
+**Why use Thunderbird over just logging into gmail or whatever?** It has extra features for compiling RSS feeds, and also IRC chat.  I am interested in those extra features so I'm not so reliant on google, discord, and siloed social medias, all of which are trying to push stupid LLM genAI shit on me.  I also wish to separate my e-mails (which is mostly work stuff) from my browser habits (which is mostly "fun" stuff like social media and watching videos).  And I want to see all my emails from all my inboxes at once.
 I'm using a fork called [[https://betterbird.eu/|Betterbird]], mostly so I can have fun rainbow indicators for my emails.  And cuz the vanilla Thunderbird lags a lot on my computer with my 50000 emails.  For the purposes of this page, //Betterbird// and //Thunderbird// are the same thing and I'll be referring the program as Thunderbird mostly.
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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.  To do that, look at the top menu.  Tools->Account Settings, you can choose your colors for each account here.
+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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 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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   * 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====