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Awesome. I always thought Lemmy would make a great RSS reader!
It says all these communities are completely empty?
I just set it up. Everyone's afraid to break the seal.
Oh it's working now, cool. I can send you my whole OPML if ya want 😅
Let's have it 😄
I don't know how to send it to ya. Shoot me a message on Matrix @Ulrich:nope.chat
I don't think that the Austin or Texas communities are useful as communities. Do you mind if I delete them?
Are there other feeds from your OPML that you would really like to have in Lemmy?
I don't mind at all. I messaged you on Matrix about this but I already unsubscribed due to the large quantity of posts and lack of any participants, meaning they just overwhelmed my timeline and were no different from my RSS reader.
I think participation might be a problem with the relatively small size of Lemmy userbase, as well as the very poor sorting algorithms. I've seen 3 month old posts, and posts with hundreds of downvotes at the top of my feed fairly often. So I'm afraid it may never be what I hoped.
The only advice I can give to improve the experience is to cherry-pick some publishers who only post valuable content, and not terribly often.
I can cherry-pick some good tech publications to make a tech community (it's FOSS, The Verge, AlternativeTo, Jeff Geerling, etc.) . Or some good fedi publishers to make a fedi community (Mastodon, Ghost, etc.) Or a self-hosting community (NASCompares, HexOS, Selfh.st, etc.)
I may just have to send them to you individually because I don't know how to pick and choose feeds to export.
Not a problem at all. I think a better way to do that will be to let moderators of existing communities add the bot to their existing communities. Someone asked about doing that, and it's easy to set up the bot to make it possible, so I think I'll just do that instead. I don't need to create a duplicate community for anything that's already got one.
I'm fine with the existing structure, with one community per periodical. I tried [email protected] and [email protected] and it looks like some people are into that type of structure, but I'm thinking mostly in terms of one-periodical communities or moderators from off-instance communities being able to add things.
Are there any that you would cherry-pick that you think you would personally use? I'd be perfectly willing to add them, if so.