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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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[–] Manticore@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

RSS seems really handy tbh, and yet I've never gotten around to ever using it. I looked up what the term was, went 'oh neat' and continued to ignore each time the RSS icon appeared on a webpage.

Maybe I should look into an RSS reader. Seems I could pull from multiple different sources and curate something far more interesting/relevant to me than, say, Google's 'Discover' page.

[–] greysemanticist@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: Aaron Swartz who helped create RSS, was involved early in the development of Reddit.

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

rss is amazing, i use it daily for news and updates on things. its so useful.

[–] mrwiggles@prime8s.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

RSS readers are legitimately the bomb. There are a couple of open source ones in the linux repos, I use LiFeRea, although it's interface is a little dated. If you set it up right, you only consume the content you want to;

[–] Ozymati@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feedly is a nice one. I keep up with a few web comics and tech sites using it.

[–] Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I used to use Google Reader and then Feedly when it shuttered, but that was back in heady days of blogmania, when everyone was self-publishing. Haven't done RSS in years, not since social media platforms took over. Having said that, I find it strangely hollow now reading any article without an accompanying discussion zone like Reddit. Like only getting half the story or a limited perspective. Hopefully Lemmy scratches that itch.

[–] rlhe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Duuuude, it's such a huge time saver! RSS is how I've used reddit for years. It's also how I use Lemmy.

[–] TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RSS readers are fantastic--I use the Nextcloud RSS reader for everything (news, youtube, reddit, etc.)

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

+1 It just works and I can see the RSS feeds on web and multiple devices.