Ever wanted to have an RSS feed in Lemmy? Well now you can!
rss.ponder.cat is set up to mirror any RSS feed into a community. You can subscribe to the feed like any other community and you’ll get every new story as a Lemmy post.
Check it out:
!arstechnica_science@rss.ponder.cat
Leave a comment with any RSS feed and I’ll create a community for it, and then you can have RSS in your Lemmy.
Check it out!
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As someone who has been using RSS readers multiple times per day since 2009, I like the idea of being able to have threaded conversations with you lot on the stuff I’m reading all day.
I like RSS but there’s no way to sort through the actually interesting content vs. just literal ads (looking at you, TechRadar).
Crowd sourcing the content helps.
Yes. I want to avoid having it become spam, so I decided to be careful which RSS feeds I add to keep the human-to-bot ratio up.
I mean you can leverage the votes of Lemmy to drown out ads from otherwise-interesting sources.
Lemmy thunderdome community! All posts get fed in from RSS, but if they don’t get upvoted by the time the time limit has passed, they get deleted!
I am joking, I think. It’s an interesting idea though. I don’t think relying on the algorithm to stem the tide of bot-posted content is a completely complete solution, since I have definitely seen bot-provided communities which annoyed me with the volume of 1-upvote posts which the bot was putting up. I am planning to try to limit the feeds available to those that have a respectable amount of human interaction.
I don’t think relying on the algorithm to stem the tide of bot-posted content is a completely complete solution
Yeah. That’s not what I said. I said it would help to filter ads from otherwise-interesting sources.
Even better, you can then follow those communities as an RSS feed!
This is freaking awesome, can you combine several feeds into one community ?
No idea, what I linked is a built-in feature of Lemmy (every community has an RSS feed) but you’d have to ask OP about how their custom communities are created
It’d be easy to do. What did you want to have combined? I’m not sure it would be much better than people subscribing to multiple communities to combine different feeds together, but what were you thinking?
Any chance to tell us what tool you use for that?
I have some communities where i’d like to automatically post github release posts into.
It’s a hacked-together python script. Should I try to clean it up and open source it? It’s not well-organized right now, though.
I’d be interested, yes.
But if you don’t feel like publishing it at the current state and don’t plan to “clean it up” any time soon, don’t rush it. There are some bots out there that could do the trick if i sit down properly^^
Yes, please.
Thank you!
Awesome. I always thought Lemmy would make a great RSS reader!
It says all these communities are completely empty?
I just set it up. Everyone’s afraid to break the seal.
Oh it’s working now, cool. I can send you my whole OPML if ya want 😅
Let’s have it 😄
I don’t know how to send it to ya. Shoot me a message on Matrix @Ulrich:nope.chat
Hmm, Church and State… I much prefer having a separate RSS reader (FreshRSS in my case) for news, as I see it, and lemmy for more frivolous purposes. YMMV.
Same here. This seems valuable for anyone who would want Lemmy to be a first-class RSS reader. But I prefer to just use my RSS reader and add feeds to that.
I use a combination of RSS feeds provided by Lemmy and the ones provided by openrss.org, which has most if not all news sites nytimes, bbc, etc.
I think they can both be useful. Some people will prefer to have an RSS reader pulling the feeds from Lemmy communities, and some people will prefer to have Lemmy as their home base, so to speak, and like to be able to add updates from some RSS feeds to that.
Interesting idea!
Can we mirror very niche Reddit communities? Edit: would be great to have a website where we could paste the RSS feed and get this set up automatically.
May I ask what communities are you interested in? I don’t want to automatically post things, but you might be interested in the “Community Ambassadors” feature of https://fediverser.network. Ambassadors can add multiple RSS feeds and use them as source of content to their communities, and then they can repost whatever they think is interesting.
Currently I’m missing:
- Apple Maps
- Aqara
- FIREUK
- Monzo
- ipv6
- tradfri
- trading212
- TrySwitchBot
- Withings
- OctopusEnergy
It’s a pretty big list, but these are the main communities which force me to still have Reddit account. Maybe one day we will be able to complete get rid of it but not today.
This is not a long list at all, and some of these communities you are mentioning might be a good for https://indiehackers.space. The best way you can help me now is by signing-up to https://fediverser.network and adding the subreddits that you are missing and use the “request a community” for the ones that are missing.
I also went ahead and created !applemaps@poweruser.forum if you want to get started. :)
I think @rglullis@communick.news has a suggestion that is better than using Reddit’s RSS through my tool. Importing Reddit communities via RSS may become spam and stunt the growth of a real local community based around the same topic.
Wait posts will be manually reposted by real users?
I may be ok with that. I hate non-useful Reddit repost bots and I’m banning/defederating them instance wide.
If things will work manually, I would ask users if they want it. What do you think @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol?
Exactly. The idea is to move away from automatic reposting and simply to make it as easy as possible to bring the content from other places and to show people on Reddit that they can migrate easily.
This is an absolutely excellent idea. I don’t think I will allow this for Reddit feeds, since there are two better ways of getting them on Lemmy already.
Whatever you want, yes. I separated it from the main server exactly so that all kinds of stuff could get mirrored without creating a problem.
I said that I would mirror any community, but I thought about it more, and now I am worried about creating spam. I agree with the other posters that the community ambassador feature would be a better way to do this.
There’s a server doing that already, I think https://lemmit.online/
Registrations are closed - This isn’t supposed to be a community in itself, but to provide Reddit content to those who miss it in these early days of the Reddit migration.
Still very active from what I can see.
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Phys.org does what some of the others do, offer a massive menu of options for the RSS feeds. I picked out their top stories feed only, to cut down on spam. I don’t want to have a huge list of bot-posted communities with no activity. Are there any of the specific ones that you want to have, besides the top headlines?
Awesome, thanks for creating the communities.
Top stories are fine for Phys. 👌
Have a great day, dude.
This is awesome! I feel like you’ve really improved Lemmy with this. Be proud!
😁
There seems to be a federating issue with programming.dev 🤔
Maybe an IPv6 issue? Can one of the admins see what the error is on their end when the communication with rss.ponder.cat is attempted?
There’s a post about it now. The admins might look into it. I’m just a user.
