Hey Fediverse,
We’ve been working on something cool and wanted to share it with you. It’s a new project called Lemmy.link, and it’s all about making RSS feeds more accessible and useful on Lemmy.
We’ve noticed there’s been a lot of talk in various communities about people shifting back to traditional RSS aggregators like Feedly, TT-RSS, and Newsblur. It got us thinking: why not bring those RSS feeds directly to Lemmy instead?
That’s how Lemmy.link came to life. Right now, we have 10 communities collecting from over 30 RSS feeds, covering topics from World News and Technology to Business, plus some popular YouTube communities like News, Technology, and Explainers.
But we’re just getting started, and this is where you come in. We’d love your ideas for new communities or RSS feeds to include. There’s just one thing - to keep things running smoothly, we’re focusing on shared interests and staying away from personal communities with custom feeds.
Also, please note, for now, lemmy.link is closed for signups. You’ll need to subscribe from your current Lemmy instance. Once we’ve incorporated the upcoming 0.18.1 captcha update, we’ll take a fresh look at this.
So, take a tour of Lemmy.link and let us know what you think. We believe there’s huge potential for this project in the Fediverse and your input is a big part of that. Please provide any feedback on !meta@lemmy.link
Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy what we’ve built so far with Lemmy.link.
– Notorious
What a coincidence, I just finished writing the first revision of my own bot for this. It’s rough, but it works for me so far :)
You know what they say about great minds!
combine efforts guys!!
I like the idea and to be honest it’s probably better with registrations turned off so that all posts would only be from rss sources.
I’m definitely going to subscribe to a few of your communities!
Great!
I was compiling a list of news and magazines feeds. It’s far from complete, I don’t know if it can help but here is the opml.
There is a lot of overlap between the feeds included because I grabbed the main feed and the categories wherever I could.
This is fantastic! Thank you!! I’ll work through the list and see what I can do.
Instance native community links
If your instance has not yet had someone subscribe, you may still need to search for the community before its viewable to you.
FYI, kbin needs it with an @ and without the !
Example: @space.
typed as .link
I’m on kbin.social and it doesn’t seem to working here even with the @.
Maybe lemmy.link hasn’t been federated with kbin yet? Not sure exactly how it all works as I’m still pretty new.
Problem with kbib is that they don’t differentiate between an @bob “magazine” and an @bob user if you do @bob@kbin.website
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That’s definitely not the goal. My vision of this project was to simply combine Lemmy + RSS. You get the benefit of news stream from RSS with the community upvotes/downvotes and comments of Lemmy. I had initially tried to set up TT-RSS and Newsblur, but both of them were difficult to set up and this felt like a better solution. I’m also extremely open to adding communities and feeds as requested… absolutely not trying to curate news for people.
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Absolutely fair points and I already had the concern about being “fair and balanced”. The feeds I’ve added so far are either diverse (Youtube News is a great example: it contains both CNN and Fox News YouTube feeds) or are generally considered neutral (AP News and Reuters).
When it comes to UFOs and religion I’d have no problem adding them, but would absolutely break those out into their own communities. If someone is super interested in UFOs then they are welcome to subscribe to the UFO community with like minded people. Ultimately I’m trying to keep the number of feeds per community fairly low and make sure they are on-topic.
All that said I think it’s up to the community to upvote/downvote as they wish. That is really the power of link aggregators like Lemmy and Reddit. Crap gets downvoted into oblivion and the spicy nugs float to the top. Link aggregators do come with their own drawbacks (echo chambers and trolls to name two), but they are very powerful once you’ve found the right communities.
Thank you for the well wishes! Sorry it’s not right for you, but I really appreciate the feedback to make sure I’m executing this properly.
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Do you have source for the bot? Curious to look under the hood. Great idea for an instance, though!
I’m still actively working on it, but once it’s in a good place I’ll throw it up on GitHub and post it to !meta@lemmy.link
Looking forward to it! Let us know when you do.