What types of things are you guys monitoring via rss? I’ve never had a need to use it.

Hbps & HBps

Good to know that is a possibility. Thanks for explaining.

“But once you understand how federation works, it doesn’t matter much because you can subscribe to communities on other instances using the same account.”

I’m obviously still figuring this out, but this doesn’t appear to be completely true, depending on the community. I subscribed to a community on another instance and the content isn’t the same when I visit it from this instance.

I made a post on that thread https://lemmy.world/comment/690842

Getting used to things here. Signed up with a random instance. Trying to figure out if there is any benefit to signing up with a particular instance, and if it’s worth exploring for a better/closer instance to sign up with.