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Avamander on Aug 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch

Let me know when Mastodon can take RSS, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and etc. feeds as inputs. The platform needs to have a way to import content to bootstrap an instance without having a lot of friends.

pbhjpbhj on Aug 18, 2018 [–]

Isn't that a place for 3rd party services, like IFTTT? Doesn't have to be first party.

Avamander on Aug 18, 2018 | [–]

I don't know, my current experience is that the system lacks content I want to see and there's no easy way to import that. It's just my honest opinion about the system in the current state.

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