Yeah I was specifically replying to the seeing the content from communities (or everything on the internet, really) in one view. Keeping your identity across multiple forums is an issue is platform-specific and would be solved by Lemmy directly. RSS feeds would just give you the updates and the links directly to the content. But once you click through, it would use the accounts you’re already logged into on the platform.
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daed@lemmy.world 7 months agoMy understanding of RSS is that it’s basically a list of metadata and links for content… Its always seemed to me to be a great way to aggregate the content you want to see. He did specifically mention keeping an Identity across multiple forums and I’m not aware of any RSS implementation that provides that functionality though… are you? That’s a huge feature to miss if we’re talking about social link aggregators like Reddit and Lemmy.
mark@programming.dev 7 months ago
Rosco@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
One of the main advantages of RSS is that it doesn’t track you or require an account for it to work. As you said it’s only a XML or JSON file wth the latest items posted on the website.