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RSS's outside the fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by SvetlanaDragunova@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hello, Is it possible to add RSS's from sources that are not in the fediverse?

i.e. podcast, YT channels. If not, maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

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[–] rysiek@szmer.info 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Depends on your instance software (i.e. the software that is powering your instance). Friendica can do that I believe.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, it’s standard in friendica as far as I understand. I’ve done it with my friendica account.

[–] jakob@lemmy.schuerz.at 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. You can add RSS-Feeds with friendica. I do this with some feeds succsessfully.

[–] SvetlanaDragunova@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I will check out Friendica, Thanks.

[–] EnchantedWhetstones@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes. What reader are you using? I like commafeed. I need to donate or host myself... so good. Feels bad mooching

Subreddits or multireddits, substacks, wordpress, almost every news site, invidious (youtube), nitter (twitter), mastodon, try googling site name and rss if it doesn't automatically detect it by putting the URL into subscribe

It's the only way to use the internet for me lol

[–] codenamedmitri@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Oh excellent, I was going to ask what RSS reader people use. Commafeed looks decent, I'll try that.

Does anyone know of any general-purpose readers that support RSS and ActivityPub? (And now, Bluesky, Nostr, sigh..)

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you get subreddit rss feeds?

[–] smikwily@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Just add .rss after the subreddit.

Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/.rss

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Just paste the URL for the view you want (new, top, ...) into your reader and it should find the matching feed automatically. Basically every view on Reddit has a feed.

[–] SvetlanaDragunova@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, Is there another Lemmy server that could have that enabled?, or is it that Lemmy is not meant to do that function?

[–] Hirom 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Lemmy is built upon ActivityPub, which is different from RSS.

IMHO it would make more sense to have a client application that connect to both Lemmy account(s) and RSS feed(s).

This way you could fetch RSS feeds even if the Lemmy server is unavailable, and wouldn't have to re-subsribe to RSS feeds when migrating between Lemmy servers, since subscription would be kept independant.

[–] SvetlanaDragunova@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, I was looking for a way to have both fediverse feeds and RSS feeds into one place, and not need commafeed anymore XD

Edit: Feedbro extensions are nice, no cloud shennanigans if your paranoid... thay way XD

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