Haha Pornhub - proof that most visitors use Windows, and they’re a bunch of wankers.

RSS is one of the oldest protocols existing. Basically it’s like a feed with links to things posted…

I’d suggest you start with Feedly or Inoreader, make an account and take a look.

For me, it means that I can see notifications (Inoreader) telling me how many unread items have occurred across the 79 websites I added as feeds.

• I have a folder for ‘Fediverse’ with feeds like Lemmy - ukraine (also Reddit’s r/ukraine).

• I have a ‘Linux’ folder, containing a few interesting blogs - like Niccolo’s KDE developer blog, a few news sites, plus announcements from my OS forum.

• I have a ‘News’ folder with various sources (one is a journalist I know with a Facebook page - as I don’t use Facebook).

• I have a ‘Video’ folder

• I have a ‘Time Waster’ folder which has things like Digg, WindowSwap, Drive & Listen

Basically, any time you make an account and request updates from a website, the same can be done with NO account and simply copying the RSS link.

It gives you updates on things you don’t need to bother bookmarking or opening to follow.

Well there’s the rub. I added the RSS a day or two ago, I saw that post. The post is from a lemmy.world account on Beehaw - I think it should be trivial to open it and interact.

If I look at the similar Lemmy feed, I don’t see it - and I can’t find it in a search - it’s kind of ‘walled off’ to me.

Beehaw and Lemmy.World don’t have the same headers.

Yes, I’m not too worried yet.

Some folks are busy setting up subs here - it’ll be interesting to see if we can get subs with both direct posts as well as direct feeds from Reddit too (I get 99% of Reddit via RSS).

This is the way.

Ah, when I do that, I see ‘Subscribe Pending’ :(

Strangely, I cancelled and subscribed again - now ✔ joined

Inoreader works very nicely for me. I have quite a few folders set up… Stuff I had bookmarks for, but rarely visited lately…

• Digg Top Stories (43 unread) if I get bored - at least a dozen of those will keep me entertained.

Stuff from the ‘other’ place - useful fodder to consider ‘bridging’ or just ‘copy/pasting’ over in Fediverse :P

• Reddits (e.g. Dad Jokes)
• Fediverse (https://lemmy.world/c/dadjokes)

I added the Firefox extension, so if I visit Youtube - for example (open this in a PRIVATE window, not logged in) Insights from Ukraine and Russia then I can Easily add the RSS by searching in Inoreader.

Here’s Daily Dose of Internet

The beauty being that you can quickly go through all this stuff - great keyboard accessibility (90% covered with Shift J-K to go to the next/previous feed, Shift-X to toggle expansion of the folder, J - K to go (and mark read) the next/previous item (but you can ALWAYS view all articles in a thread)… all without visiting the sites.

Feedly and Inoreader are both awesome - and you can (and should regularly) export a list of your feeds as a backup/migration strategy.

How do we get to the ‘megathread’ ? I never knew one existed.

WTheRtRevKaiser - you didn’t post a link to the ‘megathread’ - I’m not sure I know where that is. Sorry… I need a tutorial for every suggested action ;)

Well, despite the difficulties translating to Federated platforms, I will certainly be working on alternative social platforms.

I no longer use Quora or Facebook…

I unsubscribed my ‘YouTube’ channels and added them as RSS feeds, so there’s no need for me to be signed in there to consume content from creators I follow.

I hope that a month or two with the Fediverse will allow me to understand it better. I’m sure that many Fediverse users will also remain on Reddit and be able to advise folks on what to do.

If anyone on, for example, r/firefox announced activity over here, I’d follow them here. So whatever the ‘bots’ say, I know what’s occurring in my corner.

Dead links don’t help… join-X.org

I’m working on this, but getting onboard is very tough!

If I can work this out (being rather dumb) I can see a bright future being able to help and explain it to noobs…

Problem is, how will that work, if the noobs can’t join a thread and get started?

Difficult.

I just found a post - which I wanted to add a comment to - but I’m now logged in with Lemmy.world - so when I opened that comment (link) in a new tab, I’m told that I can either log in, or subscribe here (copy/search !technology@beehaw.org) which now shows ‘Subscribe Pending’.

So basically, communication isn’t being facilitated in this instance - this is a huge barrier. If a connection, or subscription is required to reply, then this needs to be automatic.