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Follow RSS feeds from Lemmy (ponder.cat)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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Leave a comment with any RSS feed and I'll create a community for it, and then you can have RSS in your Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Simpsons reference: your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your communities

As someone who has been using RSS readers multiple times per day since 2009, I like the idea of being able to have threaded conversations with you lot on the stuff I'm reading all day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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