I wish there was a way to follow specific twitter accounts through micro.blog. Like mostly my local school / weather / police and wirecutter.
@supremus I used to follow some accounts via RSS feed reader but now Twitter even took that away. Only way is to go directly to their page via bookmarks. Ideal way is keep asking them to move off Twitter.
@pratik @supremus I have about 6 Twitter accounts I want to follow but could find no alternative for once RSS stopped working. I visit the web pages daily. It's so frustrating on one busy account (earthquakes in NZ) to have to scroll down and figure out how far back I want to go. A couple of definitely NOT busy accounts are frustrating in the other direction — umm, today's the 25th so is there anything newer than the 24th?
@kimonostereo @supremus @pratik Thank you. I went with OpenRSS and now the half dozen accounts I wanted to check are tucked away in NetNewsWire. 😀
@Miraz my Dejal Simon app might be able to help watch those accounts. I haven't tried, but it's an idea.
@supremus Don't tell anyone but nitter.net is the last outlet which Musk has not blocked. I created RSS feeds for accounts I wanted to follow (ex. nitter.net/JoeBiden/...) and read it via Feedbin.
@dejus Interesting notion. I'd always thought the app was a high-powered server thing for web devs… Unfortunately while I'm sure it's worth every cent for what it does, it would be well beyond my budget. 😀
@Miraz a common use is to watch websites for changes, e.g. a coin collector watching for deals. I've just tried watching a Twitter account, and it works. Email support@dejal.com, and I'll give you a free license.
@kimonostereo Thanks for the reminder. I switched to Nitter and have pinned those tabs instead of each account.
@miraz unfortunately, Reeder doesn't deal well with title-less posts and proceeds to put the full content in the title field 😒