Is there any way to subscribe to a specific post, and get updates when someone replies? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by LeftRedditOnJul1@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I hope this is the right community to post in.

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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[-] antik@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

No that option doesn't exist in Lemmy for now.

[-] LeftRedditOnJul1@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Ah, that's a shame. Thanks for answering!

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago

Here's the feature request https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3069

[-] mark@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] codapine@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years 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