• mark@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    you could easily keep your identity across multiple forums and see the content from all your communities on one page

    RSS feeds have provided this experience for years. The problem is that a lot of sites stopped serving RSS feeds for their content. But sites like rss.app and openrss can be used to get RSS feeds for sites that don’t have them.

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      1 year ago

      RSS is great for content consumption. It’s a shame that many sites stopped serving it- same thing with podcasts, now everyone wants you to listen on this or that platform instead of just publishing a normal RSS feed full of MP3 files.

      That said though, RSS doesn’t help for participation, it’s a one-way tech.
      I guess if you have forums that put out RSS feeds you could aggregate them together for post titles, but that’s still clumsy. Lemmy does it much more elegantly.