New releases are a chance to talk about how a project is developing. I’m happy to make another post in a bigger community to get more feedback, but I wanted to check here first to see if this is something you might want to do @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat

A potential process could be

  1. User makes a request in !meta@ponder.cat, and tags the relevant mod
  2. If the mod approves, they can tag the admin of this instance to turn the feed on

There are also general communities that this could work for, such as !opensource@programming.dev or !selfhosted@lemmy.world, but those communities are active and may see this as spam. It may help to crosspost the bot posts to them instead.

Technical:

Potential issue: Repos with lots of pre-releases may feel like spam. Relevant issues here and here. Those repos could be skipped.

(sorry if this was already discussed)

  • PhilipTheBucketMAEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I think it’s a good idea. I want to make it possible for people to administer their own feeds, without creating spam, and I think having moderators able to add feeds to communities they moderate would be a good stepping stone.

    How about adding a feature to let people write:

    @bot@rss.ponder.cat add https://some/feed !some_community@instance
@bot.rss.ponder.cat remove https://some/feed !some_community@instance

    in DMs or comments, and control their subscriptions directly? I’m still not sure about letting them do that to create communities on rss.ponder.cat, but for communities they already moderate, it sounds like a good thing.