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RSS Feed Requests and Announcements - Get an RSS feed as a Lemmy community

Yesterday I posted about rss.ponder.cat, with communities automatically fed from a selection of RSS feeds. Today I made !meta, 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 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!

Elevator7009 ,

I'm not saying this to crap on your community—I'm just genuinely curious. Why make a community that's just an RSS feed when I can just subscribe to the RSS feed of the website?

PhilipTheBucket OP ,

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.

mark ,
@mark@programming.dev avatar

Yeah this doesn’t make much sense to me either. The sudden influx of duplicate posts across Lemmy over the last couple of days makes it seem a little weird.

PhilipTheBucket OP ,

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.

Blaze , (edited )

Crowd sourced curation is always nice

Blaze ,

Nice initiative!

dogsnest ,
@dogsnest@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed!
This rocks for me, for sure.

Many thanks.

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