Reddit RSS alternatives: 5 ways to keep following your subreddits
Reddit’s RSS feeds stop on November 13, 2026, and Reddit isn’t offering a replacement. You can’t get the same posts from somewhere else, but you can follow the same topics in places that still publish real feeds. These are the options that work today, and what each one is good for.
The short version
| Option | What you get | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Lemmy communities | Reddit-style communities with posts and comments. Every community has a feed. | Most subreddits, especially tech, Linux, news and hobbies |
| Mastodon hashtags | Public posts tagged with a topic. Every hashtag has a feed. | Broad topics, news, photography, science |
| Hacker News searches | New stories that match your keywords. | Programming, startups, tech news |
| Lobsters tags | A small, carefully moderated list of tech links per tag. | Programming languages and computing |
| Blogs and newsletters | The sources a subreddit links to most. | Niche hobbies with a few great writers |
1. Lemmy communities
Lemmy is the closest thing to Reddit with open feeds: communities, upvotes and threaded comments, spread across many independently run servers that talk to each other. A lot of subreddits moved there in 2023, so there is often a direct equivalent, like !selfhosted@lemmy.world for r/selfhosted.
Every community has an RSS feed in this shape:
https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/selfhosted.xml?sort=Active
Change sort=Active to sort=New if you want every post instead of the busy ones. To find communities, search on a big server like lemmy.world, or let the checker do it for you.
2. Mastodon hashtags
Mastodon is a social network made of many servers. Any public hashtag has a feed:
https://mastodon.social/tags/photography.rss
Hashtag feeds are busier and less focused than a subreddit, so they work best for broad topics. A server only shows posts it knows about, so a big server like mastodon.social gives the fullest feed. If you have a Mastodon account, use your own server instead.
3. Hacker News searches
For tech subreddits, a Hacker News search is often the most useful replacement. The free hnrss.org service turns any search into a feed:
https://hnrss.org/newest?q=rust
Add &points=50 to only see stories people voted up, which keeps the feed quiet and good.
4. Lobsters tags
Lobsters is a small, invite-only tech link site with strict topic tags. If you followed a programming subreddit for links rather than chat, its tag feed is a calm replacement:
https://lobste.rs/t/rust.rss
5. Blogs and newsletters
Many hobby subreddits are mostly people sharing the same few sources. Look at a subreddit’s sidebar or wiki for recommended sites, then subscribe to those directly. Most blogs still publish RSS, and many newsletters offer a feed too.
What about services that turn Reddit into RSS?
RSSHub, RSS-Bridge, Open RSS and similar services build feeds by reading Reddit for you. With Reddit closing its feeds and its public API, and actively going after scrapers, these are very likely to break. They’re not a safe place to move your subscriptions.
And if nothing matches?
Some communities only exist on Reddit. For those, follow them in the Reddit app or on the site, and keep your subreddit list somewhere safe so you can switch if a good alternative appears later.