RSS Parrot

★★★★★

RSS Parrot is a simple Fediverse service that does one thing and does it well: Follows an RSS/Atom feed of your choice, and relays it as a Fediverse account you can follow from Mastodon, Akkoma, GoToSocial or any other ActivityPub-compatible service. For example, you can follow my website’s updates at @kvibber.com@rss-parrot.net

Basically it lets you use Mastodon as a feed reader.

If the feed items have summaries it’ll use those instead of the full articles, so it won’t overwhelm Mastodon timelines that aren’t prepared for long-form text. It doesn’t try to send replies back or anything fancy like that, but you can read, follow, boost and bookmark (and like or reply if you really want to, even if it’s just going out into the void).

To find (or create) the parrot account for a feed, you can mention @birb@rss-parrot.net in a post with the URL of the feed you want to follow, and it’ll reply with the name of the relayed account.