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blog:2025:0828blaugust_25 [2025/08/28 22:48] – [RSS for Mastodon] scumsuckblog: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.   [[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. 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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   - Put that URL in your reader.  It just works.   - 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.  [[https://github.com/gabboman/wafrn/pull/460|WAFRN has a way to create RSS feeds but it's opt-in for the account]].+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. 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.