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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    3 months ago

    I like RSS but there’s no way to sort through the actually interesting content vs. just literal ads (looking at you, TechRadar).

    Crowd sourcing the content helps.

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      3 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.

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        3 months ago

        I mean you can leverage the votes of Lemmy to drown out ads from otherwise-interesting sources.

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          3 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.

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            3 months ago

            I don’t think relying on the algorithm to stem the tide of bot-posted content is a completely complete solution

            Yeah. That’s not what I said. I said it would help to filter ads from otherwise-interesting sources.

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              3 months ago

              I understand now. I thought you meant something different by crowdsourcing. No worries.