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Is it hard to give up your niche reddit communities? I may have a solution. Kind of. (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by cih@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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So, this isn't meant to be a "guide" or anything but I thought it could be helpful to some.

  • Find yourself an RSS feed reader (e.g. Feedbin).
  • Grab your subreddit link. (Example: reddit.com/r/museum)
  • Add .rss to the end of that link. (Example: reddit.com/r/museum.rss)
  • Add your subreddit RSS feeds to your feed reader.

This way, you can keep reading reddit without having to visit it. You will still need an account to participate, of course.

But I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to participate and keep feeding reddit content for free?"

You are what makes reddit what it is. If you can be yourself elsewhere, why waste your precious time on reddit?

You deserve better.

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[–] arthur@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In my head I see them clipping the RSS off. One of the "reasons" for the price hike was to keep AI bots from scraping the site and I assume RSS is one of those ways?

[–] stom@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I don't think the comments are available via RSS, and that's a chunk of Reddit's usefulness.

[–] fred@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only thing you get out of rss is the title of the post, and a link to the post comments and whatever the external link was (if it wasn’t a self post).

I use rss to monitor a few subreddits since I run my own rss reader and monitor all sorts of feeds.

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