I was wondering, about your suggestion (and please, keep in mind I am not that intelligent when it comes to technology): when I access all the posts via my RSS reader, doesn't this still count as some kind of "visit" to Reddit's site? Shouldn't we just try to stay away from it as long and as good as possible?
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Yes and no. Your RSS reader downloads it for you, you just view it. reddit no longer gets your "visit". You no longer see ads, either.
Thank you for explaining. Now I get it. I am new to RSS readers, but I love having all the info in one place so this has gotta be a really good solution!
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Thank you so much for this!
I think you can make a bot to post an rss feed to mastodon (or something else in the fediverse?) And then subscribe to that with your lemme account to just have the content here!
There might be a way to make a community here that has automatic posts from the rss feed too?
If you don't use RSS readers but do like email, blogtrottr.com is free and does RSS→email. You can set the frequency of the emails. Free accounts get ads in the emails, but it's inexpensive to go ad-free, which I do.
disclaimer: I get no benefit from sharing the site, just found it to be a handy tool…
Hmm, that's a good idea! I tried that, even with your museum-example, and it didn't work though.
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.
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.
Can you try https://www.reddit.com/r/DayOneApp.rss? I think it's because of the capitalisation.
That does not work either. Maybe mods can switch rss off.
This is very odd. Sorry it didn't help!
But the idea is great! Thanks for it, I might find some other subreddits to "subscribe" this way.
Accidentally deleted my message lol.
I tried and it works for me, the link for RSS was https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp.rss
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
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Won't the rss feed contain only the individual post and no follow up in answer threads?
Yep. You'll have to visit the link to see the discussion unfortunately. But the point of this approach is* to only get posts without having to visit reddit.
Anyone know how sites like teddit.net will be affected? Apps like Stealth let you browse reddit with it set to teddit if you wanted.
@GhostMagician @cih @technology good work around for the short term. Eventually they will kill off everything but their first party app and web app.
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I use @inoreader@mastodon.social. Recommended.