I have seen two different people say that they aren't using cohost because it doesn't support RSS. I'm not one of those people, but I agree it would be nice.
we're planning on doing RSS feeds! (we've actually got an RSS feed generator already written, but the code is old and broken and needs to be redone.)
I think we should do RSS and absolutely under no circumstances should do ActivityPub (and I used to work on the committee that helped make and implement ActivityPub my name is like on the W3 website for it)
@shel - out of curiosity, why? I don't actually know much about ActivityPub. I'm gently curious about the idea of it, but skeptical of any distributed system like this (because they always become niche systems anyway).
@Remy Porter - Federated social media is bad IMHO. I don't want cohost blogs to be interoperable with Mastodon or for that to be expected.
@shel - instinctively I agree, I was just wondering if you wanted to share any specific thoughts as to why. I'm not super deep into that space, so my opinions aren't terribly educated on the subject. It basically boils down to "distributed systems are hard and tend to make things way more complicated than less distributed systems, and social media needs to be *easy*."
I thought cohost RSS support hasn't been implemented at all. How have you got anything appearing in your RSS reader?
@Xoey, the format is this:
https://username.cohost.org/rss/public
I also love how the example user for this talked about RSS in their first post lol.
If you want a slightly different take on Cohost RSS that supports CWs and tags and the like, check out https://corobel.nora.codes/username/feed.rss (or https://corobel.nora.codes/username/originals.rss for just original posts)
I hacked together an RSS feed service for Cohost in July, then stopped development when I heard there was an official one.
But it's still live at https://eggbug.news/
Official one is out!
cohost! - "NOW LIVE: RSS feeds!"
Remy Porter
Having an RSS feed associated with pages would be a fantastic way to open up the content. Similar arguments could also be made for ActivityPub integration, but that's a much larger lift. I remain a huge RSS user, and it's a nice standard way to reshare content without being tied to a platform.
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