#Feed RSS

[unpretty]

patreon coasts so hard on being the first big name in artist support/paywalling. no rss feeds for anything except podcasts. each patreon only gets one podcast feed so if they've got multiple 'shows' it's all jumbled up together. once you connect discord you're in the discord for every patreon you subscribe to, no option to be selective about it. there's ostensibly a shop function but only for digital items and barely anyone uses it, meanwhile there's all these sticker clubs that give you special shop passwords and codes to use on their actual functional website. writing posts in the patreon post editor sucks. they don't even offer things that would actually be useful, like letting artists collab and offer discounts to people who subscribe to multiple patreons as a bundle.

this got away from me but every time i want to listen to a podcast ad-free only to discover that i will need to subscribe to a patreon feed that includes six other podcasts i don't care about i want to gnaw on an ethernet cable

[incognitopolls]

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[mycorrhizastar]

I posted my hourly comics on my blog if you wanna get the once a year glimpse into what I do in my day to day.

[chubbyqueensworld]

Good morning 🍩😴💗

[bwooom]

we need to normalize easy to read and keep up with webcomics. this isnt even a "we need to restore this old internet thing!" this has Always been shitty i remember giving up on so many comics bc they were literally only on deviantart and i didnt have an account. but we can change it. do NOT make the only place i can read the webcomic a tumblr page where youre also self-reblogging updates/answering asks/reblogging fanart. make a neocities with an rss feed. make a comicfury. this is my agenda.

[theneonghosts]

Setting up an RSS feed and looking for websites and news sites to add to it, any recomendations anyone?

[mikerickson]

Someone explain Substack to me, is this just a blogging platform for people who work in policy think tanks?

[writerobscura]

The USA

Sorry for the radio silence; I'm still processing how 51% of my country thinks it's okay to elect a bigoted, misogynistic felon to the presidency.

This election is a reminder that half of this country is so fucking hateful that they're willing to elect someone that makes us a laughing stock around the globe while those who bought and paid for his campaign gut democracy.

Are you doing better than you were four years ago? Of course not. You were getting subsidy checks Biden pushed through a Republican congress post-pandemic.

Wages went up for essential workers, and that expense got passed on to you because corporations aren't going to short to their shareholders - and the President can do nothing about that without holding companies accountable to regulation - which our new president has no intention of doing.

The next two years:

My adult children will lose their healthcare when he and his Republican senate quash the Affordable Care Act - but hey, so long as you have a few extra bucks at the end of the month for cigs and beer, what do you care?

Some states will be able to seize the medical records of women and mothers and use those records to fine or put them in jail (abortion, IVF, getting your trans teen the care they need) - but hey, none of those things affect you personally, so fuck 'em and hey, women aren't even human, am I right you newly registered voting Gen Z fellas?

College debt, infrastructure repairs, social programs - kiss all that goodbye because fucking the planet up is a small price to pay so you can get gasoline for under $2.99. Oh, and that Latino spouse? All it takes is one call from a disgruntled 'Murican and our new INS will be there with 'post-citizenship deportation review' papers.

Wars? How easily everyone forgets that Ukraine is at war right now because your guy failed to help him when Russia flooded his country with separatists. You think he's going to stop arming Israel? Where's the money in that?

Xenophobia may have worked when the USA was 100% self-sufficient in the 1900s, but it cannot be done in this day and age - but hey, going back to the old days is what it's all about, right?

Living in a hurricane or natural disaster prone state? You better pray to whatever G*d you worship that nothing happens in the next 2 years because the Pubs have the Senate and the presidency - no more FEMA funds and 'emergency handouts.'

Tariffs instead of taxes on the rich? Zero-sum situation. Guess how many companies import basic things just to make the shit you eat and use daily? Monsanto is no longer an American company, most farmers in the USA 'import' their seed, though because lack of corporate regulation has allowed them to destroy all farms that don't use their seed. While we're on the subject of tariffs, any foreign company can say, "We just won't sell to you, America." What's the backup plan? Oh, right, he has none.

Prices will rise, wages will stagnate, tariffs won't work, so guess who gets billed for that deficit? Not the wealthy—they spent billions electing this assclown, and there's no way they're investing one damned penny in the rest of us.

But hey, they know you can take it because you voted to have all this...You voted for all of the above at the expense of literally half your fellow countrymen.

If Kamala won, you would've lost NOTHING. Your worst case scenario under her presidency is that you would've been running in place financially while those you consider morally or racially beneath you, might've been gotten ahead a few steps.

So yeah, 51% of my country would rather watch it all burn down than suffer anyone they consider less of a human being, be given an equal chance.

[unpretty]

What is the fediverse?

The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you.

i've reached a point in my life where i simply am not interested in posting on websites where any ol' dickhead could buy it and turn it into a crypto advertising platform if they feel like it. i'm tired. i'm not doing this shit again on another website that promises this time will be different. let me self-host or fuck off. tumblr is grandfathered in because i'll be here until matt kills it for good, but unpretty.space will be my only other social media if i can help it. i might change what software i'm running but the url should stay the same.

[wip]

RSS feeds need love -- they're an excellent way of managing feeds when you're trying to keep track of way more than the dashboard/tabs can handle. It seems to have been left by the wayside: photo posts were randomly broke (some but not all are now fixed), reblogged "asks" only show the original answer, older blogs with "shorten posts in feed" still exist even though the option was removed. Dashboard-only blogs don't even allow RSS. Are there any plans to improve that system at all?

Answer: Hey, @nameless-sdk!

So, your last point is a misconception I’d love to clear up: blogs without custom themes do have RSS feeds! For example, while https://macmanx.tumblr.com/ redirects to https://www.tumblr.com/macmanx, https://macmanx.tumblr.com/rss does not redirect and works exactly as it does if the blog did have a custom theme. The exception is if the blog is “hidden” and requires login to view—these blogs do not have RSS feeds, because there is no way to authenticate with Tumblr over RSS! Since this is a privacy setting, this is fully intentional.

As for the other concerns, I agree—it would be awesome to see RSS get more support. Unfortunately, it’s not really aligned with our current priorities. In the meantime, if your RSS reader has a setting to simply visit the webpage of feed items (I know Mozilla Thunderbird has one), I’d recommend using that to read Tumblr posts via RSS.

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions—it’s much appreciated.

Best,

—April

[theayesphere]

The AyeSphere - The Wonka-verse, AI shenanigans, and the travesty of Madame Web | S3 E2 | RSS.com

On this week’s AyeSphere, Joy and Aye talk about the Glasgow Willy Wonka AI scam scandal, what the new Timothee Chalamet addition to the Wonka-verse gets right and where the other films rank compared to the original Gene Wilder adaptation.

Aye also got Joy to watch Madame Web because apparently he enjoys testing the strength of their friendship ! (Spoiler alert: It’s bad) They also veer into various other media because it’s not the AyeSphere without a tangent.

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RSS feed is up and available for your listening pleasure on your favorite podcast platforms.

[mycorrhizastar]

Been Bloggin: New Year's Edition

2024 No More - I look back on the last year. It wasn't so bad despite everything. I've made some changes in my life and am happier for them. I continue to have fun being online.

Chasing 2025's Horizon - I talk at length about the things I'm looking forward to doing in this new year. My personal website continues to grow more powerful.

[chubbyqueensworld]

unedited version on my spicy site.🖤🍩🔥

[sparrowspring]

i need to know what’s wrong with leander, sure. but most of all i need to know if he genuinely likes mc or if they’re just a means to an end to him

[nihiltism]

waiter waiter more art of that blonde man bloodied and paralyzed with fear please

[masterwords]

are you seriously recommending a fic based on the telegram rape groupchat with 70,000 men in it on your hotchgan blog?? i get that "fiction is fiction" and people will read and write about anything, but to use a very real and very horrifying situation like that as a plot point in an a/b/o fic is disgusting and tasteless. tag your shit with the appropriate trigger warnings or keep it out of the tags period.

I am not recommending anything that comes across that blog.

It is an automated RSS feed that pulls directly from AO3 when fics are posted using the Hotch/Morgan tag, not personal recs from me. Cool your jets.

I don't live online, and I only check that blog once or twice per week to make sure nothing skeevy is flowing through, it isn't exactly a highly active tag. A simple mention to check the feed and delete the post or change the tags would suffice.

Done and done, by the way.

For the record: no, I don't rec that fic. In fact I personally wouldn't rec half of the fics posted there based on what I like to read & write, but fiction is fiction so I started that feed so people wouldn't miss fics they might want to see regardless of my personal taste.

Coming for my jugular without actually understanding how the blog works is pretty wild, dude. You don't even know me. You could have just asked nicely.