Edit: This is effectively solved by this browser plugin I found that lets me swap instances with a single click. It turns out there is no way to make an RSS feed for remote users between instances, so this is a close 2nd in terms of convenience.

For example: I want to follow this user’s posts because they post regular hand-crafted news posts. The RSS link noted in the screenshot gives me this error pasted at the end of this post.

I tried going to lemmy.world and their RSS feed button works, but I don’t want the .world link in my RSS feed, as I want to comment on the post sometimes. Is there any way to get the blahaj.zone user RSS feed working for non-blahaj.zone users?

Thanks in advance.

The error (in .json format): 'CouldntFindPerson: CouldntFindPerson\n 0: lemmy_routes::feeds::get_feed_user\n at crates/routes/src/feeds.rs:254\n 1: lemmy_routes::feeds::get_feed\n at crates/routes/src/feeds.rs:193\n 2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request\n with http.method=GET http.scheme="https" http.host=lemmy.blahaj.zone http.target=/feeds/u/PerfectDark@lemmy.world.xml otel.kind="server" request_id=7991f179-8c64-43cb-8eba-0247d85cef70\n at src/root_span_builder.rs:16'

    • alk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      1·
      6 days ago

      I can easily find the post, but this is specifically about RSS. I tried to edit the URL using the original URL to load it on this instance, but I can’t figure out how to do that to get directly to the post, or else I could set up some automatic RSS rules to edit it each time.

      The search with exact URL works, but that’s still not enough to get it to the actual URL in RSS.

      • ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        As I understand it, there is no way of getting a remote users RSS feed. However, there are a couple of options, depending on exactly what you’re trying to achieve…

        PieFed has the ability to send you a notification whenever a user posts. But that would involve having your account on our PieFed instance (or on someone elses’s)

        Otherwise, if you’re ok with editing the URL like you mentioned, or if you can modify it with regex in your app, and point it at lemmyverse.link. So https://lemmy.world/comment/17893041 becomes https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/comment/17893041, which when followed, will take you to whatever you set your home instance as. So you could click on that link to be taken to l.b.z.

        • alk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
          1·
          6 days ago

          Hm, that could work. As it works now, my RSS app actually displays the entire post’s content in the RSS app itself, and I fear the lemmyverse redirect might give it some trouble in doing that. However, simply reading it in my RSS app, it doesn’t actually matter what source it comes from, but following it should lead me to my home instance, so I may be able to leave the .world URL in RSS if I can find a way to automatically redirect after I click to my home instance. (Or if a 2nd link was to be shown in my RSS app alongside it, which might be possible with enough duct tape)

          Either way, I didn’t know about lemmyverse, and this will prove very helpful outside of this problem too, so thank you!

          Edit: After realizing something like lemmyverse.link could help, I also found this project which lets me easily swap instances with a single click. This is probably as close as I’m going to get to solving the problem short of magically making the RSS feed show remote users, so this problem is effectively solved. Thanks for your help!