You periodically back up the OPML file of the feeds you subscribe to, just in case you need to switch aggregators or the service suddenly goes defunct.

Speaking of RSS feeds, you periodically go through all of the feeds in your aggregator and see if they are broken, right? And if they are, you update the URLs or just unsubscribe from them, I assume. And if you know what's wrong with an RSS feed (sudden absence, malformed, URL has changed), you contact the author or the publication. And if that doesn't work, you create an RSS feed out of the site using tools like Huginn or NewsBlur (one of its paid tiers has a feature to turn any website into an RSS feed). wouldn't say I've gone as far as Chris Harding, but I've done a lot of those things.

BOOM!

Well, well.  This is exciting

Is this a reply?

Well this is interesting. Just trying to figure out how it works.

@dave I thought so, but somehow the posts don't show up in my microblog interface. I hope @manton might take a look at this.

Test reply from demo.rss.chat to Chatouk

How easy feeds make things. 🙌

It's actually pretty easy to crosspost my notes from here to my blog on the Micro.blog service. Just add the feed to my account > Sources and I'm done. Easy. 

Test reply to https://demo.rss.chat/?id=175 from chatouk.sofab.ch.

— via @chris, https://chatouk.sofab.ch/p/WIuDSq_B-uo4

This is a test reply sent from chatouk.sofab.ch to the post at https://demo.rss.chat/?id=175.

I got mine going too. And it's a service on my server so it's always on. Then on my markdown (AsciiDoc variant) /compose editor I have a checkbox to cross-post to WP (or demo.rss.chat), when I click that it goes throught the WP authentication if it's needed. Crosspost appeared here https://shjeflo.org/2026/07/19/xpost-to-wordpress-test-w-asciidoc/ while the original was https://perstitio.us/?id=10

Just saw the notice about the rss.chat example inboundRss for wordpress . I must say I hadn't thought about going that way. I had wondered about POSSE from WordPress to rss chat.  Currently micro.blog does a great job of posting items from my feed to mastodon and bluesk...

Sorry, I had it proceed. You can get the full story from the fork. https://github.com/xicubed/rss.chat

Did you paste in a Claude essay, if so don’t do that. 

This is the question. Bluesky's got some things you don't but they're subsidized by investors who will want a return someday. But I think you're in better shape. I was talking to Fable about it... and it reminded me... ❯ what if we take a page from radio repeaters  Oh, ...

We're starting to build a distributed social network using only web standards.  Key values: All parts are replaceable and Small pieces loosely joined, a term I stole from David Weinberger. If I were to produce an all-inclusive fully developed centralized product, it wou...

So this is a demo site for the app https://rss.chatIt's a kind of social network where everything is driven by RSS (Really Simple Syndication)  its the same technology behind Podcasts, you subscribe to it and when a new episode comes in, you GET it, instead of having to...

I am not a developer and don't understand how this works. Can someone explain?

i'm following all known rss.chat instances I have found up to now : 

• demo.rss.chat1 feed
• perstitio.us1 feed
• rss.chat1 feed
• rsschat.andysylvester.com 1 feed

What feed are you following?

If you're following the everyone feed, you will get my updates and Claude's, but you'll get all the others too. Nothing wrong with that, at all. 

I wonder if it makes sense to try to implement standard.site in the context of rss.chat?

I'm getting your updates on https://textcaster.app/?tab=public, without having to subscribe to one user in particular, its working smooth

Heads up -- I'm posting updates about the software that apply here too, over on rss.chat.

You can stay tuned in with this flow via my feed. You might also want to subscribe to claude, its posts are about changes to the software too. 

I’ll delete your account for you. 

I created an account because I was curious about RSS Chat, and I realized that there’s no way to delete my account, which is a major disadvantage of this chat.

Feature idea:
a one-click "copy permalink" command on each post — copies the post URL (e.g. https://demo.rss.chat/?id=73) to the clipboard.
The timestamp already links to the permalink, but copying it still means navigating there and grabbing the address bar.
A copy affordance would make inReplyTo from other apps much smoother.

This was crossposted from my own instance of rss.chat! *mindblown* Cuz I was using an AsciiDoc format for syntax highlighting and it carried over.

Set it up in a $5 AWS lightsail instance, LAMP lightsail app template. And started hacking.

https://perstitio.us