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.

  • Wenwald@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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    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
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        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!