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
    32·
    5 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
        3·
        5 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
            4·
            5 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.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        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

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
        1·
        5 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
            2·
            5 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?

            • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              I was talking about multiple RSS feeds, for example: ZDNET Linux + Phoronix auto-posted to one Lemmy community.

              • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
                2·
                5 months ago

                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.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
      19·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • RandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        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^^

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
              1·
              4 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·
                  4 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.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • mark@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        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.

  • hPkEud74N6DJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • rglullisAEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • hPkEud74N6DJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        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.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          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.

      • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        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?

        • rglullisAEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          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.

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            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.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      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.