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nolanlawson / pinafore

Alternative web client for Mastodon (UNMAINTAINED)
https://pinafore.social
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Pointers to ActivityStreams and RSS feeds missing #2337

Open kidehen opened 1 year ago

kidehen commented 1 year ago

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'>

nolanlawson commented 1 year ago

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 <link>s?

kidehen commented 1 year ago

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) :)

kidehen commented 1 year ago

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 <link>s?

Regarding browser extensions, see our Structured Data Sniffer which is available for:

  1. Chromium Browsers
  2. Firefox
  3. Safari
  4. Github Repo
nolanlawson commented 1 year ago

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!