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/Kbin 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 [email protected]

Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy what we’ve built so far with Lemmy.link.

– Notorious

  • muftiboy@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    could this be used to create a feed that combines for example, m/mildlyinteresting on kbin with c/mildlyinteresting on lemmy.world into a single feed, as a bridge for users to browse the various scattered communties. it’s one of the main complaints from the anti fediverse shills on reddit

  • RinarijiEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Love what im seeing! This looks like a stellar replacement for my current news feed. Can’t wait to sign up

    • Notorious@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully the communities propagate quickly. I’ve been struggling to subscribe myself on lemm.ee. Not sure if there are any tricks or something I can do to help them propagate faster. If anyone has ideas please pass them along!

  • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    So, basically, you’re bot-posting material available from external RSS feeds. Is that correct?

    I like the idea. It may offend some people as they’ll see it as bot activity but since you’re posting to your own instance, and it’s an opt-in choice on the part of others as to whether or not to subscribe, I support it.

    Do you have any interest in sharing the methods/code you’re using for the autoposting? I’d been thinking about doing something similar in my personal instance.

    • density@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      One of the instances I saw on a list looked like it was basically a news aggregator. It was I think a .de or some other eu tld.