rss.ponder.cat is live! You can have Lemmy communities fed by RSS news feeds:
A lot of big sites offer feeds for different categories of article, but I’m not sure it is smart to mirror every single one into a Lemmy community. The ones above, for periodicals like the BBC, are only the front page stories, which seems necessary for it not to turn into spam.
The Ars mirror, on the other hand, I broke down by category, at least partly. You can get all the articles:
- [email protected] - Every single article
- [email protected] - Only feature articles
Or, you can subscribe to individual categories of articles:
I’ll see how it goes. I don’t want it to become a source of spam.
If you want to have an RSS feed as a community, ask. They’re easy to add. Just say something and I’ll set it up.
Happy RSSing!
A more general thought/suggestion:
Have a general support community that people can post in, and pin a post from it on the instance so people know where to post with requests and ideas. You could also include a link to the communities page or some other list of all communities that are available. It could help with discoverability
Also feel free to cross post to [email protected]
This is an excellent idea. I made [email protected] and made a sticky post.