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:

!nytimes@rss.ponder.cat

!bbc@rss.ponder.cat

!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!

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Simpsons reference: your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your communities

    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.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
        0·
        4 months ago

        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.

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            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.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
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        4 months ago

        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?

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            I don’t think mirroring from Lemmy RSS to Lemmy is useful, though. Is that what you’re talking about? Why not just subscribe to the different available communities?

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              I don’t think that the Austin or Texas communities are useful as communities. Do you mind if I delete them?

              Are there other feeds from your OPML that you would really like to have in Lemmy?

                • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
                  11·
                  3 months ago

                  Not a problem at all. I think a better way to do that will be to let moderators of existing communities add the bot to their existing communities. Someone asked about doing that, and it’s easy to set up the bot to make it possible, so I think I’ll just do that instead. I don’t need to create a duplicate community for anything that’s already got one.

                  I’m fine with the existing structure, with one community per periodical. I tried !coding_blogs@rss.ponder.cat and !science_streams@rss.ponder.cat and it looks like some people are into that type of structure, but I’m thinking mostly in terms of one-periodical communities or moderators from off-instance communities being able to add things.

                  Are there any that you would cherry-pick that you think you would personally use? I’d be perfectly willing to add them, if so.