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I've gotten to a point in my privacy journey where it's less about moving towards private options, and more about relaxing and having some fun with what I can do.

I put off messing around with RSS for a while. I simply didn't have a significant need for it. However, after finding no good options to monitor various Lemmy communities without logging in, I decided to try out an RSS reader.

I settled on Feeder as my RSS reader, despite a few missing features I would like. I added my first Lemmy community as a feed, to try it out. I was immediately surprised how well it worked.

I also added other feeds, such as Tails News, and I was happy with that. I could monitor all the communities I needed to.

Then, I noticed one day, there was an RSS button for my Lemmy inbox. This is where I was really pleased: I can view my notifications without the need to log in, all in the same place.

Lemmy and RSS are both incredible, and I truly believe RSS is the hidden backbone of the internet. I love it, and maybe you should give it a try too!

(Ahem P.S. if anyone has an RSS reader as good as Feeder for Android that fixes this issue, please let me know)

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[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One day Mozilla will remove the web browser component of Firefox and go for AI, social media and "most used news" (pre-approved) API interaction only. ๐Ÿ˜

"Because that's what the users want".

[โ€“] everett@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, Dr. Dystopia.