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TLDR link: github.com/yeahnahmate17/rss-protests
Hi! I want to be able to share information about upcoming and past protests in Melbourne, and I don’t want to involve social media. This is an open source project.
Explanation of RSS
RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication)[2] is a web feed[3] that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitors sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News aggregators (or “RSS readers”) can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.[4] – Wikipedia
How does this relate to protests?
I’ve published a way to access an RSS feed dedicated I’ve created for protests in Melbourne. The feed is a short reflection of the posts on this website. You don’t get notifications for feeds (usually), and I’m hosting the feed.xml file on Github: github.com/yeahnahmate17/rss-protests