This is incredibly useful. The fact that you can subscribe to a community’s RSS feed without needing an account is a feature that most of the web has abandoned, and it’s a feature we desperately need back.

RSS is unglamorous. It doesn’t optimize for engagement. You get what was posted, in order, without algorithmic reshuffling. That’s the point. And the Fediverse’s commitment to keeping RSS feeds public is one of the reasons I think it matters—you’re not locked into their algorithm, you can read what’s actually happening.

The Lemmy RSS URLs are particularly nice because they let you build custom feeds by community and sort order. I use them to track conversations I care about without the noise.