There’s still some subreddits I’d like to view as their communities haven’t swapped over yet. Like you guys, I obviously don’t want to support Reddit in any way shape or form. Surprisingly, they have not gutted RSS feeds yet. Simply add .rss at the end of the domain. Example
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA
becomes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA.rss
Which now works from your RSS reader, sees not ads, and can view without logging in. This also works in nsfw subreddits and apparently now “unverified” subreddits now. Depending on your RSS reader, it should also be able to grab images from posts as well. This bypass seems like an oversight for now, as this doesn’t work from the API. Remember: Reddit can still go fuck themselves.
Another small PSA: This works for Lemmy communities as well!
This works for (almost?) any reddit URL:
Note that in the last 3 URLs, the
.rssis added before the?, in all other cases it’s at the end.Oh I’m not aware of the comments one! Thank you!
Oh, I also forgot:
Very useful for moderators (of not-very-large subs).
Good info
Wait, couldn’t people have used this to continue developing 3rd party apps?
This only works for reading the content, but you cannot post or comment via RSS.
EDIT: Also, RSS feeds only contain the last N elements, so the apps would need to store all the data from Reddit… which is not practical.