Been complaining about the RSS bots for years. They pollute feeds and search results too. If people want to see RSS feed content, just subscribe to it in your RSS reader.

Yeah, will never understand why these big billionaires keep taking these "we are for the people" stances, but are still trying to spin up these same ol for-profit, centralized products. If they really cared, they'd use that money to help nonprofits or decentralized services and stay out of the damn way.

Yeah same thing I was wondering. There are still a lot of great RSS readers. Arguably even better than Google Reader was.

Not many things require a polyfill these days. My guess is a lot of older sites are affected.

Exactly what I was wondering the entire time I was listening. None of these questions were asked during the episode. A lot of handwaving and buzzword double-speak. She didn't go into any real technical detail.

News sites are better to consume via RSS feeds. Check out openrss.org that has feeds for a lot of websites. There are even RSS feeds for Mastodon and Lemmy.

This assumes that people who are interested in a community are subscribers, which isn't always the case. Users like me who subscribe to RSS feeds for communities, for example. This also doesnt account for people who might create a new or alt account. Wouldn't they have to resubscribe to every community just to get their votes counted?

It's pretty obvious they're only doing this to try to push people who like the recommendations to create an account. But can't people just create throwaway accounts to temporarily relieve their recommendation fix?

Their recommendations are useless anyway. I don't want to see 200 rock hard abs videos just because I watched a clip of Roseanne doing sit-ups.

I agree. For the people that dont want to see your home feed cluttered with duplicate content, it may be time to just start subscribing to your favorite Lemmy communities using RSS feeds for more control.

There's an RSS feed for anything on Lemmy using Open RSS. For instance, the RSS feed for this community is here:

https://openrss.org/lemmy.world/c/fediverse

You can also get feeds for comments on specific posts.

Any plans for aggregated total of upvote/downvote karma for each user?

Hmm cloud-based solutions for this scare me. But ok if open source.

threads is never planning to support the fediverse

Same thing I'm thinking. If they were going to support it, they would've done it already. And it wouldn't be an after thought.