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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My lemmy account is on the programming.dev instance but I use newsboat for RSS reading of some lemmy.ml communities, along with browsing the local homepage of lemmy.ml and some other instances in a regular browser. Is there a way to do either of these things from the programming.dev instance so that I can easily comment on posts without having to manually locate the same post by browsing to /c/[email protected] on my own instance?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In your regular browser, why not just subscribe and have your feed do the heavy lifting?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How do you subscribe to the frontpage of another server though? And where would that feed be located?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What I mean is, from your programming.dev account you can subscribe to as many communities you like on any and every server and then it's just a matter of keeping a browser page open on https://programming.dev/?dataType=Post&listingType=Subscribed&sort=New

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes but I wanted to see exactly what was on a specific server's frontpage without having to keep up to date with any and all subscribed (or not) communities that were on their frontpage.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, fair enough. In that case, I think photon (the alternate Lemmy UI) allows you to see remote front pages in a graceful manner. Maybe give that a try.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can use openrss.org RSS feeds. They are there for this exact purpose. For example, you can get an RSS feed of /c/[email protected] by going to https://openrss.org/programming.dev/c/[email protected]. Then all links in the feed will always go to the post on programming.dev instance.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is there a way to do this without relying on a third party service?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We're talking about instances having feed content for other instances (on totally different domains), so anything helping with this case would be a "third party service".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ok I didn't know if servers had the capability to show the same frontpage as another instance.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was looking for the rss link of another instance's community, as viewed from my own. So for example if my RSS reader notifies me of a post in /c/[email protected], I could click the link and it would open it within the programming.dev instance so that I may comment on it easily.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You might have to use one of those lemmy link plugins for that, bc lemmy's community rss feeds are meant to be for local communities, not federated ones.

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