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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Thank you!
Interesting idea!
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.
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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.
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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.
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I understand now. I thought you meant something different by crowdsourcing. No worries.
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?
Even better, you can then follow those communities as an RSS feed!
This is freaking awesome, can you combine several feeds into one community ?
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?
All related news feeds for example:
- Linux
- Gaming
- Self Hosting
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?
I was talking about multiple RSS feeds, for example: ZDNET Linux + Phoronix auto-posted to one Lemmy community.
Oh, got it. That’s a really good idea. Although I do think that the comment recommending fediverser.network may be a better way. You can avoid duplicate stories from multiple news sources, and cast a wider net without creating overwhelming spam, as well as integrating better with a flexible local 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
TL.net would be great for esports news https://tl.net/rss/news.xml
if
tlis too short for a community name, maybe tl_net or teamliquid_net or something like thatit will be a good source to cross-post from (I wish Lemmy users used cross-posting more)
How about
tlnet? I just made !tlnet@rss.ponder.cat.yea tlnet is perfect, thank you! subscribed
Ooh, this is very interesting. I’m a sucker for emulator progress reports, just a fascinating intersection of programming, graphics, and gaming. My personal RSS feeds right now (which I’d love to add lemmy discussion to) are:
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/feeds/ https://pcsx2.net/blog/rss.xml https://www.libretro.com/index.php/feed/ https://blog.ryujinx.org/rss/ https://xenia.jp/feed.xml
I made !emulator_announce@rss.ponder.cat with all of those feeds. I’m not sure, but I think that will be more useful than breaking it out into a bunch of communities and letting people deal with them individually. Is that just as useful for you?
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I just set it up. Everyone’s afraid to break the seal.
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Let’s have it 😄
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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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
and
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.
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.
Yes, please.
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^^
This is awesome! I feel like you’ve really improved Lemmy with this. Be proud!
😁
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.
