I do the same with the activitypub subscriptions, as well as grabbing regular RSS feeds & notifications. I pretty much only need one app to keep up with all of my news - & can “click though” to interact in the real app/website if i have something to contribute

I actually use if to feed into Huginn, which means that it never leaves my local network. For the odd occasions that i want to add to the conversation i don’t think that i have an alternative but to log into reddit (then log straight off after that). So it make sense to bake the right URL into the RSS. I don’t browse reddit at random, but YMMV & an auto redirect to the redlib server is a good thing to have in reserve - I use Firefox, of course

#really! 🫢 Combination of force of habit & search optimisation. I agree though, they do look odd