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Pointers to ActivityStreams and RSS feeds missing #2337
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Thanks, this seems like a pretty simple addition. But what purpose does it serve? E.g. is there some browser extension or protocol handler that can hook into these |
What I described is a standard auto-discovery pattern for RSS and Atom feeds used by a variety of compliant clients. Take a look your Mastodon profile page, and you will see the pattern in use there too. There are tools that process RSS discovered by this easy-to-implement use of Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) :) |
Regarding browser extensions, see our Structured Data Sniffer which is available for: |
I see, so this would allow the extension to allow a user who is on a profile page in Pinafore to quickly subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for the clarification! |
Typically, especially across the Fediverse, a reader includes references to ActivityStreams and RSS feeds along the following lines, via entries in the section of its HTML doc. This common practice is currently missing from pinafore.
Fix:
Given a profile page denoted by the URL https://mastodon.social/users/kidehen, the following would be added to the section:
<link href='https://mastodon.social/users/kidehen' rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml'>
<link href='https://mastodon.social/users/kidehen' rel='alternate' type='application/activity+json'>
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