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Reddit has RSS feeds (lemmy.ml)

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A lot of people don't know this, but you can subscribe to subreddits using RSS by simply adding .rss at the end of the URL, e.g: https://reddit.com/r/socialism.rss and then you can add the feed to your favorite RSS reader. For example, there's a great add on for Firefox and an Android app.

As far as I know, RSS feeds aren't affected by the API changes. So if you use Reddit to catch up on the news, this is a great way to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice! Can’t wait to pay 40$ next year for that access.

Seriously though, it’s a great feature and I hope it stays.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

lol, yeah hope they don't nuke the feeds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For some reason many sites get rid of their feed over time so I can imagine they won't last long on Reddit neither.

They already disabled posts marked as NSFW recently which sucks if you don't like logging in all the time.

Btw you can use RSS on YouTube too: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=(id here)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just wait until they nuke them too...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for this! I forgot RSS even existed. The time I used them were so many years ago that it feels like RSS should be dead like cds 😂

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

RSS is really underappreciated, and most news sites still support it. It kind of fell out of vogue because it makes it hard for corps to track and monetize the users.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the difference between .rss and formats like .xml and .json?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

.rss outputs it in a format that RSS readers recognize, .xml and .json are just different ways the page can be consumed, for example if you wanted to get the content through a service

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who are the RRS readers?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

check the links in the post

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

to catch up on the news, this is a great way to do that.

great way to catch up on the news is to watch actual real respectable news - not reddit (or any other social network, for that matter)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Reddit is just an aggregator of actual real respectable news.

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