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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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[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm, that's a good idea! I tried that, even with your museum-example, and it didn't work though.

[–] cih@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh? Which reader did you try it* with? Because you should be able to view the link (https://www.reddit.com/r/museum.rss), even in your browser.

[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, that is very weird. With your link it worked now. I am using NetNewsWire and would like to add https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp to the feed. But with https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp.rss I get an error message that the feed would not exist. https://www.reddit.com/r/beebutts.rss does not work either, https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA.rss works. I am starting to feel stupid.

[–] cih@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you try https://www.reddit.com/r/DayOneApp.rss? I think it's because of the capitalisation.

[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That does not work either. Maybe mods can switch rss off.

[–] cih@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very odd. Sorry it didn't help!

[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

But the idea is great! Thanks for it, I might find some other subreddits to "subscribe" this way.

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

Accidentally deleted my message lol.

I tried and it works for me, the link for RSS was https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp.rss

[–] bblfrnz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to edit my message and instead accidentally deleted it lol.

I tried, just out of curiosity, and RSS works perfectly fine for me. The link was

https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp.rss

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

I am so annoyed right now 😆

[–] bblfrnz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm.. What app do you use? I've tried to add rss in both Feedbro (Firefox extension) and Feeder (Android app). And it just works ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It’s NetNewsWire, on both Mac and iPhone it didn’t work. What I don’t understand is that with some other subreddits it works, but not all of them. I want to know why 😂

[–] CommaLlama@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It found a feed in my target subreddit, but the newest article is from January 2021. In /r/museum the newest article is from Dec 2020.

This gets weirder and weirder.