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.

  • igemnace@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • Wenwald@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      1·
      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.

    • Wenwald@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

        • umbraklat@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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!