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RSS feeds for communities on other instances - how to click through using our own instance? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I prefer browsing by RSS feed. I can get a sorted-by-new RSS feed of any Lemmy community easily, and it is very useful. However, if I click through a post because I am interested, it takes me to that community's instance, which means I am not logged in to their instance (because I am logged in only to SDF). Hence I cannot easily comment.

To solve this, I need to go back to our SDF instance, find the external community through our portal, then re-find the post I found interesting. This makes me a much more passive consumer of Lemmy content, which isn't bad in a lot of ways, but ya know, sometimes I want to contribute a little comment here and there.

Anyone know of a way around this?

I could stop using RSS, but RSS is too powerful a part of my Internet consumption workflow to give up now.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I see on my side that the community page here on SDF (e.g. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected]) still has an RSS feed URL from the actual instance (in this case, https://programming.dev/feeds/c/programming.xml?sort=New)

Anyone know of a way around this?

I also mainly read SDF starting from RSS, but I use the singular feed for all my subscriptions. These always have links that take me to https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/XXXXXX. From newsboat (emphasis on link [3]):

Feed: SDF Chatter - Subscribed
Title: 2048 game I made in POSIX Shell
Author: https://iusearchlinux.fyi/u/narshee
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:19:45 +0800
Link: https://github.com/narshee/2048.sh/

submitted by narshee[1] to shell[2]
12 points | 2 comments[3]
https://github.com/narshee/2048.sh/[4]

Links:
[1]: https://iusearchlinux.fyi/u/narshee (link)
[2]: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/shell (link)
[3]: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/741605 (link)
[4]: https://github.com/narshee/2048.sh/ (link)

Side-note: Only by pasting the above did I realize that the second link there is broken; it should go to https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected]

Perhaps this could be a workaround for you instead of having one feed per community? Perhaps also check if this is a feature request for Lemmy already?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the great tip about using the monolithic “Subscribed” feed. Downside is that more firehose-style communities like Memes will flood it. RSS is nice for the slower communities with posts to read. I guess I could unsub from the firehose communities - not like memes add much of value to my life in the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use QuiteRSS, when I click on the "Comments" link, it takes me here no matter what instance it's from. I don't know why it wouldn't be the same for all RSS readers since they all get the same markup from the RSS url.

Edit: Are you maybe using the RSS links from the instance's site instead of the SDF site?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think I actually am using the RSS links from the instances instead of the SDF site. Is there a way to get RSS links from here (SDF)? I got my links by clicking the RSS symbols on these communities (looking at them through SDF), but I guess that wasn’t good enough. For example a feed to beehaw technology ended up as: http://beehaw.org/feeds/c/technology.xml?sort=New

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using the RSS link at the top of the page after finding what I'm looking for in the Communites and clicking the title there. For example, after clicking the link for the top Community listed in All, it takes me to https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected] and there's an RSS link next to the filters.

However, I've since figured out I prefer using just 1 RSS feed and that's my Subscribed filter https://lemmy.sdf.org/?dataType=Post&listingType=Subscribed&page=1&sort=Hot. I was very delighted to find that it works the way I expected without have to do any kind of authenticated RSS url. When I follow a new community they just start showing in my main feed. Now I just have to pick between Active, Hot or New. Using Active currently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Do you have to supply credentials? something like prefixing the domain name with "user:password@" or do you have something set-up in .netrc?~~

I answered my own question by just trying it, and it worked as expected. Thanks for the great idea!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That Subscribed feed pretty much entirely replaces Reddit and HN for me. I was so excited when I saw how it worked. I think the feed link has some account specific code in it, so I guess it's not a great thing to share privacy wise, but I wasn't expecting my sub list to be private anyway. I think that means if I decided to share the url I get from the RSS feed link (or maybe there's already a way anyone can get the same link, fine by me), anyone else could follow my subscriptions, which is kind of a cool feature.

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