Follow almost anyone online! Facebook, Mastodon, Peertube, Youtube, websites...
!Tips and Help (social.trom.tf)
Websites:
Go to your Contacts (1) and copy-paste a website's url (link):
That should be enough and social.trom.tf should detect the RSS feed. If not, find the RSS feed of the website, usually adding "rss" or "feed" after the url as such: www.website.com/feed.
Fediverse:
You can follow and interact with pretty much any federated network: Peertube, Mastodon, Friendica, Diaspora, Pixelfed, etc. Same as above, copy the url of a profile and paste it into the contacts (2). For example to follow our TROM Peertube channel copy our Peertube channel ID from here:
It will look something like this trom@videos.trom.tf. Now copy it into the same contacts form (2).
Facebook:
You can follow public pages/profiles/groups. To do that, we need to grab the RSS of those. Use our rss.trom.tf/ tool for the job. Here's step by step:
- Go to the Facebook page/profile/group you want to follow. Copy the ID (name). For example for our TROM Facebook page (that we don't really use) the url is: facebook.com/tromproject/ so the page name is "tromproject". Make sure you copy it exactly as it is in the url (with capital letters if there are any).
- Go to rss.trom.tf/ and search for Facebook. You should see this (select Main Site):
Click "show more" and you'll have this simple block that is self explanatory:
- Paste the Facebook ID into the proper form, and click HTML. Now you will see a new page with the RSS feed of that Facebook ID, as such:
- Lastly, right click the MRSS button, then "Copy link location" (so you can copy the link of that button), and then paste it again into your contacts (2) as you did for any other contact.
All of this is a very fast and simple process in fact: grab a Facebook page/profile/group ID (name), create an RSS feed using our rss.trom.tf, and copy the MRSS link into your contacts. Done!
It is the same exact process for Twitter, Youtube, and pretty much any website that is not friendly enough to easily provide an RSS feed.
Therefore, using social.trom.tf/ + rss.trom.tf/ you can interact and follow pretty much anyone online, without having an account on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or even Peertube and the like. Take advantage of it!
