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Creating a Mastodon News Feed with press.coop
Quickly create a news feed for your Mastodon account of dozens of major media publications. These instructions will give you a Mastodon “List” that follows all of the publications. You can then unfollow any you do not want. They will not show up in your home feed.
The fediverse instance press.coop imports RSS feeds from popular press sites to the fediverse, and is operated as a public benefit by hello.coop. As these are imported RSS feeds and not for engagement, replies to these posts are rejected.
Note: If you do not want to follow all of these publications you can use this link: https://wallet.hello.coop/mastodon to select and follow only specific publications.
Step By Step Instructions To Follow All Publications In A List Titled PressCoop
Click on this link below to download the press[dot]coop_accounts – List.csv file >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTP1gZ9eQHrsOpIxklPbddVCNWBFXCble0Aq-UIYb-X_qvDXObb56dejddwFaE6rQiScRcUey2eCvub/pub?output=csv
Mastodon Click: Preferences
Mastodon Click: Import and Export
Mastodon Click: Import
Mastodon: Select Lists from drop-down
Mastodon: Click Choose File and browse to the press[dot]coop_accounts – List.csv file and click UPLOAD and CONFIRM
IMPORTANT! Now if you don’t want these in your home feed, you need to go to Lists and click on PressCoop then click the little slider icon in the top right and select “Hide these posts from home”
For reference here is a web page version of the press[dot]coop_accounts – List CSV file that lists all of these media accounts. Feel free to download and edit this file to create your own modified upload .csv >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTP1gZ9eQHrsOpIxklPbddVCNWBFXCble0Aq-UIYb-X_qvDXObb56dejddwFaE6rQiScRcUey2eCvub/pubhtml
Note: This is currently the entire list of accounts supported by press.coop. Some instances block some of these accounts. For instance Fox News is blocked by many instances. If an account is blocked by your instance it will simply not be added to your new PressCoop list.
Disclaimer: No position is taken here on any of these media accounts or whether even having such a news feed list in Mastodon is a good thing. People have request a quick way to get a news feed list and here is a way to do it. If you do not want a news feed in your Mastodon account do not create one.
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This post comes from the WordPress Mastodon Migration Blog: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/
You can receive all new posts to this WordPress Blog on Mastodon by following Mastodon account: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com
(Copy and paste above address into search to find and follow)
https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/creating-a-mastodon-news-feed-with-press-coop/
Quickly create a news feed for your Mastodon account of dozens of major media publications. These instructions will give you a Mastodon “List” that follows all of the publications. You can then unfollow any you do not want. They will not show up in your home feed.
The fediverse instance press.coop imports RSS feeds from popular press sites to the fediverse, and is operated as a public benefit by hello.coop. As these are imported RSS feeds and not for engagement, replies to these posts are rejected.
Note: If you do not want to follow all of these publications you can use this link: https://wallet.hello.coop/mastodon to select and follow only specific publications.
Step By Step Instructions To Follow All Publications In A List Titled PressCoop
Click on this link below to download the press[dot]coop_accounts – List.csv file >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTP1gZ9eQHrsOpIxklPbddVCNWBFXCble0Aq-UIYb-X_qvDXObb56dejddwFaE6rQiScRcUey2eCvub/pub?output=csv
Mastodon Click: Preferences
Mastodon Click: Import and Export
Mastodon Click: Import
Mastodon: Select Lists from drop-down
Mastodon: Click Choose File and browse to the press[dot]coop_accounts – List.csv file and click UPLOAD and CONFIRM
IMPORTANT! Now if you don’t want these in your home feed, you need to go to Lists and click on PressCoop then click the little slider icon in the top right and select “Hide these posts from home”
For reference here is a web page version of the press[dot]coop_accounts – List CSV file that lists all of these media accounts. Feel free to download and edit this file to create your own modified upload .csv >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTP1gZ9eQHrsOpIxklPbddVCNWBFXCble0Aq-UIYb-X_qvDXObb56dejddwFaE6rQiScRcUey2eCvub/pubhtml
Note: This is currently the entire list of accounts supported by press.coop. Some instances block some of these accounts. For instance Fox News is blocked by many instances. If an account is blocked by your instance it will simply not be added to your new PressCoop list.
Disclaimer: No position is taken here on any of these media accounts or whether even having such a news feed list in Mastodon is a good thing. People have request a quick way to get a news feed list and here is a way to do it. If you do not want a news feed in your Mastodon account do not create one.
__________________________________________
This post comes from the WordPress Mastodon Migration Blog: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/
You can receive all new posts to this WordPress Blog on Mastodon by following Mastodon account: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com
(Copy and paste above address into search to find and follow)
https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/creating-a-mastodon-news-feed-with-press-coop/