It’s understandable if you’re a little burnt out on social media at the moment.

The good news: you’re free to follow users on either site without ever setting anything up.

That’s because every Bluesky and Mastodon account offers an RSS feed.

The URL for Justin Pot’s Bluesky account in an address bar with /rss added to the end.

This means you could use any ofthe best RSS readersto follow posts from any specific user.

This is an ideal solution if you mostly want to keep up with the posts of a couple people.

The RSS feeds for both services aren’t exactly obvious.

Justin Pot’s mostly boring Bluesky posts in an RSS reader.

Here’s how to find them.

HitEnterand the RSS feed will openyou can copy the URL and use it in any RSS reader.

The resulting feed shows one “article” for every post.

The URL for Justin Pot’s Mastodon account with “.rss” added to the end.

you might repeat this process for as many profiles as you like.

Then add.rssto the end of the URL in your web app.

HitEnterand the feed will openyou can copy the URL and use it in any RSS reader.

Justin Pot’s Mastodon posts, as seen in an RSS reader

In my experience, though, most public profiles have the feature enabled.

The resulting feed, as with Bluesky, shows one “article” for every post with no headline.

I’m glad these features exist.