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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?

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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.

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- 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
  
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  - 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.
    
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    snowydroopz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Appreciate your responses man, learned something new today, not sure it’s my cup of tea, but I can understand the full control appeal
    
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