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!

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
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        2 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
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            2 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?

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 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.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
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        2 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.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I mean you can leverage the votes of Lemmy to drown out ads from otherwise-interesting sources.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Awesome. I always thought Lemmy would make a great RSS reader!

    It says all these communities are completely empty?

          • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I don’t know how to send it to ya. Shoot me a message on Matrix @Ulrich:nope.chat

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
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              25 days 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?

              • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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                25 days ago

                I don’t mind at all. I messaged you on Matrix about this but I already unsubscribed due to the large quantity of posts and lack of any participants, meaning they just overwhelmed my timeline and were no different from my RSS reader.

                I think participation might be a problem with the relatively small size of Lemmy userbase, as well as the very poor sorting algorithms. I’ve seen 3 month old posts, and posts with hundreds of downvotes at the top of my feed fairly often. So I’m afraid it may never be what I hoped.

                The only advice I can give to improve the experience is to cherry-pick some publishers who only post valuable content, and not terribly often.

                I can cherry-pick some good tech publications to make a tech community (it’s FOSS, The Verge, AlternativeTo, Jeff Geerling, etc.) . Or some good fedi publishers to make a fedi community (Mastodon, Ghost, etc.) Or a self-hosting community (NASCompares, HexOS, Selfh.st, etc.)

                I may just have to send them to you individually because I don’t know how to pick and choose feeds to export.

                • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
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                  25 days 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.