how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(…and you don’t want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

You’ll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its “feed URL”– often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓– and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

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Some feed URLs for social media:

  • Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using “Download a user’s friends list” on Tweetbeaver)
  • Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog’s “my art” tag (as an example)
  • Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)
  • Mastodon: Use instance.url/@­username.rss
  • Deviantart: Info here
  • Spacehey: Info here
  • Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with “https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=”
  • Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn’t have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it’s not so simple to generate a feed URL.
  • Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere…)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don’t have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.

rvvaite:

I’m begging anyone to please help me we’ve been out of power for 3 days and twitter doesn’t work at all.

I’m an unemployed disabled trans lesbian that urgently needs $300 for rent. It is 17 hours late and 7 hours until they charge us late fees. I have barely gotten any help for this and I am extremely stressed.

Please do t ignore this literally anything helps. I can do art too if you need me to please I’m begging for help to stay housed.

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Please don’t tagged this so I don’t get harassed

PLUTO ANIME DEBUTS ON OCTOBER 26, 2023; NEW TRAILER UNVEILED AT ANIME EXPO 2023

astroboyart:

astroboyart:

Source: Netflix Anime (YouTube)

A second trailer for the long-awaited Pluto anime was unveiled at Anime Expo 2023 in Los Angeles, California on July 1, 2023.

The trailer revealed the release day for the Pluto anime: October 26, 2023.

A few character voices can be heard for the first time, including Gesicht, Atom, and Uran.

Source: Kalai Chik (Twitter)

According to an attendee of the panel where the Pluto anime was discussed, Masao Maruyama revealed some additional details about the upcoming adaptation:

The Pluto anime has been worked on for over a decade, and the Pluto anime will have 8 episodes that will each run 60 minutes long and cover the whole manga’s story.

it is always fun to see people log on here for the first time in months/years whenever something happens with twitter, but i have to admit i am kind of getting a kick out of how many people are posting on here today just to ask for a bluesky invite

pjackk:

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nightingem:

animusbell:

bogleech:

every gym leader is like “I lost!?! UNBELIEVABLE!” buddy you live in a world where every ten year old child has always been offered a free fire breathing monster at least once and you brought nothing to this fight but anthropomorphic flowers

gym leaders’ whole job is to provide a specific challenge, a battle of a certain type and difficulty level. if you’ve brought the tools and skills to complete that challenge, you’re going to win by design. the pokémon in that battle are probably not actually the strongest pokemon they have.

when gym leaders go “argh, how could i lose??” they’re acting to give your victory legitimacy because you’re 10. they’re like a villain cosplayer letting a baby knock them over. they’re being nice!!

they’re summer camp wrestling heels!!

  #pkmn