If you have an email workflow that you like then something like rss2email might be an option. You simply feed your incoming rss into your email. You’ll want to auto-tag (or otherwise organize) these emails to keep them separate from regular emails. Then you use your usual email tools to organize them further.
I’ve been using such a setup for the past 15 years.
How visible is this to the average user? Just wondering because I have yet to see any spam at all in my Mastodon feeds. Big thanks to the admins for being on top of it!
mastodon.el is great if you are an Emacs user, works very well and you have all the usual Emacs conveniences on hand.
For Lemmy so far I am sticking with the default web UI and Jerboa. Tried some other alternatives but I keep coming back to these.
In the default Mastodon web UI you can simply click on a hashtag and then press the “Follow hashtag” button. If you want to follow a hashtag that’s not showing up in your feed yet then you can search for it and then click on it in the search results. If you don’t see the “follow hashtag” button that might mean that your instance is running a very old version of Mastodon. Hashtag follows were added in version 4.0 which came out at the end of last year.
One caveat is that hashtags follows only show posts that “make it” to your instance either because they were created locally or because another user on your instances followed the person who posted them. In practice being on an instance with a sizable user base or an instance that’s oriented towards your interests should work well.
I’d really like to see some client-API consolidation. A common client API that could efficiently handle both “microblog” style and threaded discussions (lemmy etc) and leave the door open for other discussion formats too. This would allow for clients/frontends to flourish even more and backends could compete on features and efficiency. The backend specific features could be expressed through an extension mechanism of the common API.
I prefer other options but it’s great that we have a bunch of decent ways to interact with the Fediverse. The more the better!
It depends. If there is any money on the line or don’t want to burn bridges then I’d do the smart thing, whatever that is. Otherwise I’d just skip it.