Saturday, October 3, 2026
Reddit may be cutting off RSS access, but we will always have Lemmy
Like a lot of people, I’m bummed about Reddit cutting off RSS access. I have a few subreddits that I like to check on regularly in my feed reader, and their feeds will no longer exist after mid-November.
The good news is that Lemmy, the fediverse alternative to Reddit, has RSS feeds and likely always will. Lemmy usage has gone up substantially in recent years, so it’s not hard to find communities (their version of subreddits) with plenty of members and comments.
The bad news is that if you have a niche interest, there might not be an equivalent Lemmy community. Or if there is, it might not have much traction. Still, that could change if Lemmy’s growth continues.
If you’re up for giving it a try, here are instructions on how to do it.
In this example for the PC Gaming community, you would add “/feeds” after your Lemmy instance (mine is lemmy.ca), and tack “.xml” onto the end. Then copy and paste that into your feed reader.
https://lemmy.ca/c/pcgaminghttps://lemmy.ca/feeds/c/pcgaming.xmlWith my RSS app, Reeder, I just have to put in the name of a subreddit, and it does the rest. Not so for Lemmy. I have to put in the full URL.
I tried a bunch of communities using this method and they all worked with NetNewsWire on my Mac, with one heartbreaking exception — Star Trek. But there is a fix.
The Star Trek communities — there are a few of them — are on their own server at startrek.website. That means you need to use their instance instead of your own. So it comes out looking like this.
https://startrek.website/feeds/c/startrek.xmlThere may be other communities like this, so it’s something to bear in mind.
Ideally, the makers of RSS apps would find a way of automating the process for us. I just might suggest that to some of them.
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