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1. errhead (errhead@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 03:12:25 JST errhead

   • Alex Gleason
   • silverpill
   • Dave
   Many Activity Pub instances provide rss feeds, but the addresses aren't standardized.
   
   Thinking on what @dave is doing with the activitypub/podcast rss gateway inspired this insight.
   
   Why not .well-known/rss/ ? a nice logical place to find it, or be directed to it for any Activity Pub server.
   
   With the address easily translated to an RSS feed, modern Podcasting apps and feed readers could add the ability to subscribe by address, making it much easier for discovery to lead to subscription.
   
   For the index itself, I think it makes more sense for
   https://ap.podcastindex.org/.well-known/rss/920666
   to 301 redirect to the actual address of the podcast RSS feed.
   
   Are there downsides I'm missing in this? @silverpill @alex
   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 03:12:24 JST silverpill

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     • Alex Gleason
     • Dave

     @errhead @dave @alex

     <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ...>

     Isn't it the standard mechanism for discovering feeds?

   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 03:28:49 JST silverpill

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     • Alex Gleason
     • Dave

     @dave @errhead @alex The second option is webfinger. Some AP servers already include a link to account feed in resource descriptor:

     https://venera.social/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:fediversenews@venera.social

     { "rel": "http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from", "type": "application/atom+xml", "href": "https://venera.social/dfrn_poll/fediversenews" }
   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 03:54:01 JST silverpill

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     • Alex Gleason
     • Dave

     @errhead @dave @alex Mastodon doesn't actually provide a webfinger entry, I used Friendica as an example.

     I should support that in Mitra too, because adding <link> tag to SPA frontend is complicated.

   • errhead (errhead@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 03:54:02 JST errhead

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     • Alex Gleason
     • silverpill
     • Dave
     @silverpill @alex @dave That's good to know.
     
     still don't see the upside to
     
     https://lemmy.eus/feeds/c/informatikariak.xml?sort=Active
     https://tilvids.com/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=56
     https://podcastindex.social/@errhead.rss
     vs.
     https://lemmy.eus/.well-known/rss/informatikariak
     https://tilvids.com/.well-known/rss/playcontent_channel
     https://podcastindex.social/.well-known/rss/errhead
     
     though actually looking at it now, the Mastodon method has a certain elegance to it. Plus it's easier to just go with their method than trying to get them to change...