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!

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    4·
    2 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·
      2 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.

      • PhilipTheBucketOPAEnglish
        2·
        1 month 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·
      2 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?

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        4·
        2 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.

        • PhilipTheBucketOPAEnglish
          2·
          1 month 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.