Micro.blog feeds
We’re fans of Micro.blog, an open microblogging platform.
Because it’s built on open web standards like RSS, apps like NetNewsWire can also provide a window into the content there.
Subscribe to your own Micro.blog timeline
To use NetNewsWire to read the Micro.blog posts that appear in your timeline (not your posts), use this feed format:
https://micro.blog/feeds/USERNAME.xml
If your Micro.blog username is abigail, then you’d subscribe to:
https://micro.blog/feeds/abigail.xml
Subscribe to another user’s timeline
You can use the same format to subscribe to someone else’s timeline.
Again, this is not their posts (for that see below), but the posts from people they follow. For example, if you want to read the same timeline as Miraz Jordan reads, subscribe to:
https://micro.blog/feeds/miraz.xml
Subscribe to someone Micro.blog posts
To read the posts made to a single Micro.blog feed, you use a slightly different feed address:
https://USERNAME.micro.blog/feed.xml
So if you want to keep up with what Miraz is posting to her own blog, subscribe to:
https://miraz.micro.blog/feed.xml
Other Micro.blog feeds
There’s a lot happening at Micro.blog. It’s no surprise they offer feeds to let you keep up with the community there.
- Featured photos:
https://micro.blog/feeds/photos.json - Discover (featured posts):
https://micro.blog/posts/discover
Posts in the Discover section of Micro.blog are categorised using emoji. Each of those has a separate feed as well:
https://micro.blog/posts/discover/EMOJI
You’ll need to know the word which corresponds to an emoji, so consult the Discover emoji list, but they’re pretty obvious. Like cats:
https://micro.blog/posts/discover/cats
Meow!
All the details
Full documentation of Micro.blog’s feeds are available at their feeds help page.