Lunatech

joined 2 years ago
[–] Lunatech@infosec.exchange 4 points 1 year ago

@jherazob I don't get the comment about Discord being frictionless, at least for anyone who values their privacy and/or doesn't want to be tracked. I have tried several times to sign up for Discord using a desktop computer (I am old; I don't use a mobile phone for interacting with social media because it is too difficult to type a message on those things) and every single time it has demanded a phone number, which is a big NO for me. I've never had a working Discord account because of that damn phone number thing; perhaps it does not require that from everyone but it always has for me even when I've had an invite code for some community.

But also, I just have to say that I am really turned off by the weird cartoony artwork on that site. I think whoever did that art must have either been higher than a kite, or trying to appeal to 3-year-olds. It's like something Dr. Seuss might have drawn if he'd been taking psychedelic drugs. So, to me Discord never really came off as a site for serious discussion.

 

For #Lemmy users, I just found out that there is a way to get #RSS newsfeeds of a Lemmy community. It is easier to show an example than explain. If you would be reading the Security News community at its home site using

https://infosec.pub/c/securitynews

then the link for the RSS feed would be

https://infosec.pub/feeds/c/securitynews.xml

So the general format is

https://LEMMY_SERVER_LINK/feeds/c/COMMUNITY_NAME_NO_SPACES.xml

where the uppercase items need to be replaced.

More information at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html?#rssatom-feeds

Unfortunately I can't find anything similar for #kbin - anyone know if it is possible to get an RSS feed of a kbin community (or "magazine" as they call it)? I looked at the FAQ by @kbinMeta but could not find anything about RSS feeds.

#fediverse #RedditMigration