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RSS feeds for communities on other instances - how to click through using our own instance? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org
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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.

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

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!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    That Subscribed feed pretty much entirely replaces Reddit and HN for me. I was so excited when I saw how it worked. I think the feed link has some account specific code in it, so I guess it's not a great thing to share privacy wise, but I wasn't expecting my sub list to be private anyway. I think that means if I decided to share the url I get from the RSS feed link (or maybe there's already a way anyone can get the same link, fine by me), anyone else could follow my subscriptions, which is kind of a cool feature.

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