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Can you give some examples? I don't want it to become botspam. If the RSS bot is creating duplicate postings, then I may need to fix or adjust something.
It enables you to use Lemmy as your RSS reader.
You could always add all the feeds to your RSS reader including the Lemmy communities, but now you can do the other way around, even if you don't habitually use RSS.
Yep. I'm happy it's working.
Comic strips seem like they have their own communities which I don't want to collide with, and it's logical, since the frequency of posting is so much smaller that a human can do the postings no problem.
Yesterday I posted about rss.ponder.cat, with communities automatically fed from a selection of RSS feeds. Today I made !meta@rss.ponder.cat, with:
- A sticky-post roadmap of the RSS feeds that are already available
- A place for people to request communities to be added
- A place for me to post announcements about new communities
I don't plan to spam !newcommunities@lemmy.world with every new RSS feed, but I figured I would let people know the location of the community that will get announcements about new RSS feed communities, in case they want to subscribe to it.
Cheers!
This is an excellent idea. I made !meta@rss.ponder.cat and made a sticky post.
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.
I understand now. I thought you meant something different by crowdsourcing. No worries.
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 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?
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 added !cbc@rss.ponder.cat and !globalnews@rss.ponder.cat for you.
I know there's already !xkcd@lemmy.world and I wouldn't want to duplicate that community. @koraro@lemmy.world do you want me to set up an RSS bot to post new comics to the existing lemmy.world community? If one doesn't already exist? It's easy to configure the RSS bot to post comics to a designated community for them, and I think that's better than setting up a duplicate community.
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.
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?
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.
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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?
rss.ponder.cat is live! You can have Lemmy communities fed by RSS news feeds:
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!bbc@rss.ponder.cat
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!nytimes@rss.ponder.cat
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!nymag_intelligencer@rss.ponder.cat
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!nplusonemag@rss.ponder.cat
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!scientificamerican@rss.ponder.cat
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!technologyreview@rss.ponder.cat
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!newyorker@rss.ponder.cat
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!hackaday@rss.ponder.cat
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!pluralistic@rss.ponder.cat
A lot of big sites offer feeds for different categories of article, but I'm not sure it is smart to mirror every single one into a Lemmy community. The ones above, for periodicals like the BBC, are only the front page stories, which seems necessary for it not to turn into spam.
The Ars mirror, on the other hand, I broke down by category, at least partly. You can get all the articles:
- !arstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat - Every single article
- !arstechnica_features@rss.ponder.cat - Only feature articles
Or, you can subscribe to individual categories of articles:
- !arstechnica_science@rss.ponder.cat
- !arstechnica_gaming@rss.ponder.cat
- !arstechnica_tech@rss.ponder.cat
- !arstechnica_gear@rss.ponder.cat
- !arstechnica_apple@rss.ponder.cat
I'll see how it goes. I don't want it to become a source of spam.
If you want to have an RSS feed as a community, ask. They're easy to add. Just say something and I'll set it up.
Happy RSSing!
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.
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 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.
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?
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!