News Service for Tŵt
There are a lot of feeds on the Fediverse, but an awful lot of them were added before certain discoverability features were added to Mastodon, and therefore it’s hard to surface these feeds in search, collections, and starter packs.
Starting today, Tŵt is offering a range of third-party feeds directly from our service. These accounts are able to be added to collections, can be quoted, can be found and followed in all search functions. Some of them are empty for now, but will automatically update as news items become available.
These feeds are intended to give you the option of getting the news, weather and updates that are relevant to you.
The list of accounts is below, if there’s an RSS feed you think would benefit our shared community, please let us know.
News and Weather
We are incredibly grateful for the long-standing support and participation of Nation.Cymru and Swansea Bay News, who run their accounts directly on toot.wales, as well as Golwg being available on all social web apps.
To augment our news offerings, we’ve added:
- https://twt.cymru/@bbc_cymru_fyw
- https://twt.cymru/@bbc_news_north_east_wales
- https://twt.cymru/@bbc_news_north_west_wales
- https://twt.cymru/@bbc_news_mid_wales
- https://twt.cymru/@bbc_news_south_west_wales
- https://twt.cymru/@bbc_news_south_east_wales
- https://twt.cymru/@bbc_news_wales_politics
- https://twt.cymru/@met_office_warnings_wales
- https://twt.cymru/@traffig_cymru_gwaith_ffordd
- https://twt.cymru/@traffic_wales_roadworks
- https://twt.cymru/@llyw_cymru_hysbysiadau
- https://twt.cymru/@gov_wales_announcements
All these and more are in the TeamToot News and Weather Collection
And don’t forget, there are hyper-local weather updates available from FediMeteo as well!
Sports in Wales
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_cardiff_city
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_newport_county
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_swansea_city
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_wrexham
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_wales_football
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_cardiff_rugby
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_dragons
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_ospreys
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_scarlets
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_wales_rugby
- https://twt.cymru/@guardian_sport_glamorganccc
All available in the TeamToot Sports in Wales Collection
Arts & Culture
We’ve added https://twt.cymru/@buzz_mag to the TeamToot Arts & Culture Collection
Technical Notes
These accounts will auto-delete all their posts after a period of time depending on their volume. Traffic alerts last two weeks, news items 90 days for example.
However, if you’ve favourited an item it won’t be deleted. Items that get boosted a lot will also avoid deletion.
The FeedBot checks every ten minutes for new items, but will only post two items from each feed. If there are more than two, they will be picked up on the next cycle.
Accounts will publish with their relevant language configured, so you can filter by language if needed.
To avoid cluttering our local timelines, these accounts live on their own service at twt.cymru
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