This is small web app can be used to create an RSS feed of the links that were posted into the users Mastodon timeline (including links shared via boosts as well). By default, it gives the 10 most commons links of the day, as a way to catch up with potentially interesting bits that made a "buzz" but that one might have missed.
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When you sign in with your Mastodon account, this app will receive read only access to your Mastodon home timeline. It will then regularly extract all the links posted to that timeline. Once a day, it will then run a processing script, which aggregates the links that were posted the most during that day.
Based on these links, it will then create a personal RSS feed URL for you, which you can plug into the RSS reader of your choice (ðŠĶ RIP Google Reader). You can also see the latest aggregated links on this page when being logged in.
The aggregation of links only happens once a day, taking into account all the days from the day before the aggregation script is run, based on whatever timezone the server is setup to use. In many cases this will be UTC, with the aggregation script likely being run around just after midnight UTC, whatever that means in your local timezone.
Answers to some potential questions about this page.
This deployment of Masto2RSS is run by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who is on Mastodon @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social.
If you decide to login through the Mastodon authentication process, this page gets read only access to your Mastodon home timeline, which can include non-public posts by the people you follow.
This app only uses this read-access to extract all the links posted into your home-timeline on a rolling basis - and to once a day aggregate these links into the "X most frequently posted links", that are made available as an RSS feed.
The non-aggregated information from each post with a link in it does not store the actual text of the post to not store the non-public posts themselves. Instead, only the link, the time it was posted and the link to the actual Mastodon post are saved.
Older, non-aggregated links will be deleted in regular intervals to minimize storage. Furthermore:
You can delete your account on this page at any time, which will also delete all of the links that were stored.