I have a mastodon account and would like to follow some newspapers with that. I just did, but the newspapers are posting so much that my whole timeline is just spammed with their posts. Often also stuff I am not interested in.

Is anyone else here following newspapers on mastodon? How are you handling the spam?

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[–] mark@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

News sites are better to consume via RSS feeds. Check out openrss.org that has feeds for a lot of websites. There are even RSS feeds for Mastodon and Lemmy.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is no need to go through openrss.org for this.

https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/fediverse.xml?sort=New

[–] mark@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There is if you want RSS feeds for things like Lemmy search. And if you want the links in feed items to be associated with a single instance. AFAIK, regular Lemmy feeds dont provide that. But ofc people can use Lemmy feeds if they want.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think normal Lemmy feeds are all associated with the instance. What do you mean by Lemmy search? I know RSS has been around for ages but I'm always keen to make more use of it!

[–] mark@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can get an RSS feed for a Lemmy search term e.g.

https://openrss.org/programming.dev/search?q=cats

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Ooh that's a cool one, cheers!