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Frequenly Asked Questions about 
MastoFeed
Privacy
MastoFeed does not use, employ or apply any kind of external analytics, advertising or profiling services.
MastoFeed does not request, ask, has access or store your Mastodon account password, your email address, your IP address, location or anything related.
If you sign up with MastoFeed to your Mastodon server, said server will grant MastoFeed a private key for MastoFeed to post on your account. This uses the OAuth 2.0 Protocol.
MastoFeed only asks for the following permissions: Read-only access to your account (to get your username), write-only access to your posts (to send public messages on behalf of your account), and write-only access for media attachments (to include pictures in the messages if necessary).
MastoFeed can not access, read, request, edit or delete your public posts, direct messages, lists of users you follow, lists of users are following you, your account details or settings.
MastoFeed has internal access to the actual URLs of the RSS feeds, and the content they publicly display.
MastoFeed will not publicly disclose any information tied to any Mastodon account that uses MastoFeed. This includes the username and server of that account, the URL of the RSS feeds, or any content send
When you delete the MastoFeed credentials for your associated Mastodon account, MastoFeed deletes everything related to the account from the database. This includes your username, server domain name, and the URLs of the feeds you added.
When you delete the URL of a RSS feed in MastoFeed, MastoFeed will delete everything related to that RSS feed and Mastodon account from the MastoFeed database.
MastoFeed will not delete, and can not delete, any content in your associated Mastodon account.
MastoFeed is hosted in France in just one OVH server (IPv4 Address: 51.178.26.40).
MastoFeed was created and is maintaned by Álex Barredo, a Spanish citizen and resident. So the service abides by Spanish, French and European Union laws where aplicable.
MastoFeed uses SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt.
Usage
MastoFeed is free of charge.
MastoFeed reserves the right to refuse connections to any domain or IP deemed dangerous or unsafe for technical and legal reasons. This applies both to the RSS feed and the Mastodon respective servers.
MastoFeed will not fetch content from any RSS feed after the most recent item has a date older than 365 days. It will flag it as inactive, but the owner could reactivate it again when there are new items.
MastoFeed will not fetch or send content that is dangerous, unlawful or unsafe.
MastoFeed will respect and abide by robots.txt rules specified in the domain where the RSS feed is located.
MastoFeed will send all requests with the user agent "Mastofeed.org fetch bot; https://mastofeed.org".
MastoFeed allows to run 50 different feeds.
In the absence of any rules regarding automated access, MastoFeed will send as few requests as possible to the servers hosting the RSS feeds and the Mastodon instance.
MastoFeed does not alter the links in any way (e.g. add tracking to the clicks) but it may trim or cut the text sent to the Mastodon accounts to fit in each server's message length settings.
MastoFeed will not work with RSS feeds which can not be accessed from France or the European Union over an open Internet access and basic HTTP protocols. This includes corporate networks, personal or private networks, firewalled networks of any kind.
All content sent to your Mastodon account from MastoFeed will be marked by the Mastodon server as sent from MastoFeed.
Contact
MastoFeed was created in 2022 by Álex Barredo. You can get in touch at @mastofeed@mastodon.social or @barredo@mastodon.social or via email alex@barredo.es.
Please send any feature requests, found bugs or any type of comment.
Statistics
MastoFeed has published 4,582,314 messages on behalf of its users. Currently the rate is around 7,555 per day.