This is one functionality from Reddit I find myself missing quite a bit. Is there any way I can subscribe to a single post (that I didn't make) and get a notification whenever someone comments? I'm on Connect for Lemmy, but maybe a different app would offer this?

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[–] mark@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you use RSS feeds, you can use Open RSS. For instance you can subscribe to the comments on this post using this feed:

https://openrss.org/lemmy.world/post/4010300

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huh! That implies that it wouldn't be too hard to provide notifications then, right?

[–] codapine@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Seems like the server side infrastructure is already there, and the clients just need to integrate it. It's not as simple as an API call though but I guess it utilizes the Don't Repeat Yourself and keep it simple (stupid) software development principles. Would be good to see this implemented