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Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week agoRSS feeds are a way to receive posts without having to access a site directly.
The "RSS reader", a program to display posts fetched from RSS feeds, usually gets new posts through the feed's link you provide.
This link updates the contents it delivers each time a new post is made.
RSS readers often have the option to open a post's original link through your default browse or a custom browser.
If the app you use can open links from Lemmy, a functionality from Android apps, you can use the RSS reader to get new posts from users you want to follow.
Does it make more sense now? Not asking angrily, btw. (absence of tone in text is a bit of a PITA "<.< )
Alternatively, to follow users, you could try using Friendica and/or Mbin. Both are compatible with Lemmy communities, and can follow users as well. However, I am not aware of any apps for them, meaning you'd need to use them on browsers.
snowydroopz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Okay let me get this, so RSS feeds get posts without having access to the site, but how do they differ from the app I use “Thunder”, like from what I understand the RSS reader is an app aswell, and you somehow embed I believ certain links into it so it auto fetches them? Or like embed communities and it auto gets posts?
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
In the scope of the post, I was commenting about following users specifically. But yeah, RSS is generally an "app", a program aside from the others. And you you embed links, yes.
snowydroopz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wouldn’t that be a complete hassle, having to manually embed multiple communities over and over, you got reasons why you dont use an app instead, I’m speaking mobile app wise, not desktop
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
The time it takes to browse each feed and to go to the next builds over time and can be tiresome after a while. Plus sites usually don't allow hiding seen posts (e.g. Twitter), and the ones that do are usually slow at that (e.g. Mastodon). And also, RSS feeds allow having a local backup of who you follow, without the risk of shadowbans (e.g. Youtube silently unsubscribing you) or the site you had those you follow go dark overnight (e.g. kbin.social). And lastly, it helps controlling just how much clogging there is in your feed - after all, people only have so much time on Earth.