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Rss feeds for notifications, user's posts/comments and user's saved posts/comments (piefed.social)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by sga@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Is there currently any way to get rss feeds for above? on lemmy, we can do notifications, and on lemmings.world, ridokusage implemented rss for saved stuff - https://lemmings.world/post/15407036, https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyPersonalRss. As I understand, server admins need to run the latter, and it is not lemmings.world specific (though i am not sure if it may have some lemmy specific code).

And afaik, there is no rss for user's created stuff (one could turn notification's on for user, and then use notification rss to get this can be a valid workaround).

And I also had a question about posts' rss. on lemmy, the rss for a post also has votes and comments count for a post. assuming this information is available for a post, can this be also implemented in piefed?

on lemmy rss feed starts like

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[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Is there some kind of authentication you have to do to access this, or is it simply just a big long string of characters so that it is hard to guess?

precisely. it is nearly 150 digits (alpha-numeric). it is convinient to get notification (to be honest most things) via rss, and for modding, you can program a frequent rss refresh, and have some loud external notification, at least in theory.

There is potentially sensitive information in an inbox such as private messages

in theory, yes, but almost nobody uses threadiverse private messages for like private private chat. Many already know that instance admins can in theory read them.

RSS feed for a user

This does exist!

pardon me, i completely missed the button (and it is not a ui problem, it is nice front and center. i just goofed up)

Should i make issues for these? I planned to do that earlier, but just asked here first in case they already exist and i am just missing.

[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Also, is it possible to get a feed of user's comments as well. that is the thing even lemmy does not have. (I partially use rss feeds for archival purposes)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Anything is possible, it's just a matter of time and priorities ;-)

Making a RSS feed is not difficult especially as we already produce them for other content.

RSS is pull-based so using it for notifications is not ideal from a timeliness or a server-load perspective. To make the notifications timely you'd need to request the feed very often, which is super inefficient - 99% of requests would produce no new notification.

The other use-cases seem fine, provided the user is ok with the security implications.

[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

To make the notifications timely you'd need to request the feed very often, which is super inefficient - 99% of requests would produce no new notification.

I know this, and that is why i do not (my usual pull rate is once in 6-12 hours).

Making a RSS feed is not difficult especially as we already produce them for other content.

thank you. to me rss is one of the best things possible. instead of me manually checking each website, i just get the content i ask for, in cliennt i prefer, from where i can open it however i feel (for example, with threadiverse communities, i diectly subscribe to community's rss from their base instance, which also kinda distributes the load).