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Also, for those of us who are strictly users and are not likely to contribute, we don't have to take sides in anything. 1. Use the RSS client of your choice 2

Also, for those of us who are strictly users and are not likely to contribute, we don't have to take sides in anything. 1. Use the RSS client of your choice 2. Go to a master list of all federated Lemmy communities e.g. https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 3. Click through to any community on any instance that looks interesting and add its RSS feed to your client. I don't know precisely what the future of Lemmy will be, I wish them well because they've produced a cool piece of software which is more open than Reddit and puts RSS front and center. But for the time being I simply have some Lemmy feeds right next to the old.reddit.com feeds in my RSS reader, pure win for me as a user. My universe grew and I don't have to have a horse in anyone's race. This is why we RSS.

eviks 3y ago
How do you like and reply in RSS?
- jochem9 3y ago
  Well, OP already states that RSS is solely for people who only consume, not contribute. So no voting or commenting. Then again, I have hacker news in my RSS feed and get a link to both the article and comment thread. That's how I'm now able to reply to your comment. Not sure if Lemmy (or reddit) support this out of the box as well.
  - lolinder 3y ago
    Lemmy does, essentially every view in the UI (user, community, front page, etc.) has a corresponding RSS feed linked at the top.
  - eviks 3y ago
    > already states that RSS is solely for people who only consume, not contribute He doesn't, he's opposing users to contributors to the software in a response to the forking comment. Users do like/comment > That's how I'm now able to reply to your comment. No, you're able to reply using a separate app
- safety1st 3y ago
  RSS doesn't need to solve this problem. If you decide you care enough about a given community you can make an account on that instance and go do it the regular way. The problem RSS solves is it prevents your whole world being captured by a particular community, instance, server, platform, company, whatever. Half the Internet is having an existential crisis over the Reddit implosion. RSS users aren't - we're kind of shrugging our shoulders and saying, well that's one of 10 places we get community, info, whatever, sure it's a big one but if it vanished overnight (which it sort of did) 85% of my feed would still be there. Reddit, Lemmies, blogs, podcasts, Mastodon instances, weird alt Tube sites, the Chans, the Tildes, SDF, probably more - contrary to recent HN posts about how all the web feels "samey" now, it's a big 'net out there these days. It's merely a question of the company you keep. If you only ate at chain restaurants, you'd feel that food has gotten pretty lame too.
  - eviks 3y ago
    > RSS doesn't need to solve this problem Until it does it's not an alternative to SOCIAL networks > If you decide you care enough about a given community What if I don't have time to evaluate the whole community and just decide that I care enough about a given piece of content and want to add my very valuable contribution by upvoting? > whole world being captured by a particular community, instance, server... This is a nonexisting problem since there are many of those, so > one of 10 places we get community, info ... 85% of my feed would still be there this comparison doesn't make sense, if you only used Reddit for 15% of you news/ consumption, didn't care about it (didn't have any social capital there etc.) or other users, you'd also not have any existential crisis regardless of whether you used RSS or something else to read Reddit/other sources
    - safety1st 3y ago
      I don't get the broader point you're trying to make here. That RSS is no good because it doesn't provide some kind of unified ID, posting/commenting capabilities etc.? I like tools that do one thing well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy It's well documented that 95% of users are lurkers. 95% of the time I'm lurking, too. That's why following multiple communities across multiple platforms is useful. For the frequent times when we all lurk.
grep_name 3y ago
Is there a good list of lemmy instances somewhere that includes a brief description of the instances' mission statements?
- lolinder 3y ago
  https://join-lemmy.org/instances https://join-lemmy.org/instances Less than a sentence per instance, but it's enough to get a decent sense of what instances you're interested in exploring more.

eviks 3y ago

How do you like and reply in RSS?

jochem9 3y ago
Well, OP already states that RSS is solely for people who only consume, not contribute. So no voting or commenting. Then again, I have hacker news in my RSS feed and get a link to both the article and comment thread. That's how I'm now able to reply to your comment. Not sure if Lemmy (or reddit) support this out of the box as well.
- lolinder 3y ago
  Lemmy does, essentially every view in the UI (user, community, front page, etc.) has a corresponding RSS feed linked at the top.
- eviks 3y ago
  > already states that RSS is solely for people who only consume, not contribute He doesn't, he's opposing users to contributors to the software in a response to the forking comment. Users do like/comment > That's how I'm now able to reply to your comment. No, you're able to reply using a separate app
safety1st 3y ago
RSS doesn't need to solve this problem. If you decide you care enough about a given community you can make an account on that instance and go do it the regular way. The problem RSS solves is it prevents your whole world being captured by a particular community, instance, server, platform, company, whatever. Half the Internet is having an existential crisis over the Reddit implosion. RSS users aren't - we're kind of shrugging our shoulders and saying, well that's one of 10 places we get community, info, whatever, sure it's a big one but if it vanished overnight (which it sort of did) 85% of my feed would still be there. Reddit, Lemmies, blogs, podcasts, Mastodon instances, weird alt Tube sites, the Chans, the Tildes, SDF, probably more - contrary to recent HN posts about how all the web feels "samey" now, it's a big 'net out there these days. It's merely a question of the company you keep. If you only ate at chain restaurants, you'd feel that food has gotten pretty lame too.
- eviks 3y ago
  > RSS doesn't need to solve this problem Until it does it's not an alternative to SOCIAL networks > If you decide you care enough about a given community What if I don't have time to evaluate the whole community and just decide that I care enough about a given piece of content and want to add my very valuable contribution by upvoting? > whole world being captured by a particular community, instance, server... This is a nonexisting problem since there are many of those, so > one of 10 places we get community, info ... 85% of my feed would still be there this comparison doesn't make sense, if you only used Reddit for 15% of you news/ consumption, didn't care about it (didn't have any social capital there etc.) or other users, you'd also not have any existential crisis regardless of whether you used RSS or something else to read Reddit/other sources
  - safety1st 3y ago
    I don't get the broader point you're trying to make here. That RSS is no good because it doesn't provide some kind of unified ID, posting/commenting capabilities etc.? I like tools that do one thing well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy It's well documented that 95% of users are lurkers. 95% of the time I'm lurking, too. That's why following multiple communities across multiple platforms is useful. For the frequent times when we all lurk.

grep_name 3y ago

Is there a good list of lemmy instances somewhere that includes a brief description of the instances' mission statements?

lolinder 3y ago
https://join-lemmy.org/instances https://join-lemmy.org/instances Less than a sentence per instance, but it's enough to get a decent sense of what instances you're interested in exploring more.