Follow this Blog

I have been asked in the previous week on how to follow this blog. If you have found it useful there are two ways you can follow it. You can follow using RSS reader or using any social media that supports Fediverse.

I thought about enabling email notifications but I now decided against it. For what I know one will surely start disliking the mails and it is bound to get ignored. I know because I do the same as well.

RSS reader (Preferred)

RSS readers are convenient ways to follow any website. To know more about it you can read here: RSS – Consume internet consciously.

To cut the long story short you can simply follow the steps below.

1. Install an RSS reader. Some good ones are
   • Android: Feeder
   • Windows: RSS Guard, Thunderbird, Outlook
2. Go to the bottom of this webpage and click on the RSS icon. (A white dot in the bottom-left corner and two curved white line)
3. Copy the URL and paste it in the RSS reader of your choice.

Fediverse

Fediverse is a distributed social media for people who would like to keep their privacy. You can read more about it here. There are several apps that are part of Fediverse like Mastadon, Peertube etc.

In this blogs we will talk about using Threads as this is the most well know app. Important to notice is that Fediverse is in Beta in Threads. One major issue that I observe is that it only displays short posts. Hence I will highly recommend using the above RSS reader method currently.

Firstly, to use Threads in Fediverse it needs to be enabled. Then you can look for the blog and follow it just like any other account.

Enabling Fediverse

You can find the detailed instructions on the official site. I am just copying it here for convenience.

1. Click Menu in the bottom left, then click Settings.
2. Click Account at the top, then click Fediverse sharing.
3. Follow the onscreen prompts to learn more about sharing to the fediverse.
4. Once you’ve reviewed the information, click Turn on sharing.

Following the blog

1. Go to the bottom of the page and click on Fediverse button.
2. Copy the profile address which appears there (@blogs).
3. Search for this address in your Fediverse app and follow.