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.
I've been using the RSS link at the top of the page after finding what I'm looking for in the Communites and clicking the title there. For example, after clicking the link for the top Community listed in All, it takes me to https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml and there's an RSS link next to the filters.
However, I've since figured out I prefer using just 1 RSS feed and that's my Subscribed filter https://lemmy.sdf.org/?dataType=Post&listingType=Subscribed&page=1&sort=Hot. I was very delighted to find that it works the way I expected without have to do any kind of authenticated RSS url. When I follow a new community they just start showing in my main feed. Now I just have to pick between Active, Hot or New. Using Active currently.
~~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!
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.