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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 15:06:39 JST Aral Balkan

   • Neil Brown

   @neil A follow button in the browser.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 15:48:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Neil Brown
     • Matija Šuklje
     • Gerardo Lisboa

     @gvlx @hook @neil Shouldn’t even need an extension or a separate app. This is how it used to be before browser vendors (read: surveillance capitalists) removed the functionality because it was contrary to their business models.

     When farming people *isn’t* your business model, it makes perfect sense. e.g., see Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com/features/feed-reader/

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     Gerardo Lisboa (gvlx@masto.pt)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 15:48:02 JST Gerardo Lisboa

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     • Neil Brown
     • Matija Šuklje

     @hook @aral @neil So you need an extension that detects an RSS feed in the page and then shows a button which allows you to call an app to subscribe it (thunderbird, kasts, etc.)?

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     Matija Šuklje (hook@toot.si)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 15:48:03 JST Matija Šuklje

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     • Neil Brown

     @aral, this. I think the bigger problem is not the name, but that you do not have a simple button in the browser anymore.

     Also it sounds like "everyone" was using Google News, but not as many follow feeds now, IMHO because feed readers are now ever so slightly less convenient than "this got shoved in my face together with my 'free' email account and 'everyone' uses it".

     So a bit more effort required to find feeds, a bit more to find readers, it adds up.

     @neil