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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!

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even better, you can then follow those communities as an RSS feed!

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

This is freaking awesome, can you combine several feeds into one community ?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 4 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

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[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 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^^

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, please.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you could, I'd appreciate HackADay. I've found a community for it on lemmy.ml, but it only seems to have one post from a year ago.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] notabot@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago
[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.dev 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.cat 3 points 4 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.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is awesome! I feel like you've really improved Lemmy with this. Be proud!

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Interesting idea!

[–] hPkEud74N6DJ@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.cat 2 points 4 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.

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[–] hPkEud74N6DJ@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 4 months ago

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. :)

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 4 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.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

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.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 4 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.

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[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe you could add a meta community for such requests?

Also Phys.Org feeds please?

Cheers

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

!requests@rss.ponder.cat

and

!phys@rss.ponder.cat

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?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Awesome, thanks for creating the communities.

Top stories are fine for Phys. 👌

Have a great day, dude.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There seems to be a federating issue with programming.dev 🤔

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?

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