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!

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              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?

                • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
                  11·
                  2 months ago

                  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 !coding_blogs@rss.ponder.cat and !science_streams@rss.ponder.cat 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.