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

  • SpziEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    That’s a great idea! Subscribed to some, thanks.

    My suggestions / wishlist:

    • climate change
    • environment
    • ai development
    • Europe
    • reporting from conflicts/wars
    • news covering the fediverse (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, …)

    A sidenote: I noticed you made a few independent but identical announcements. I believe it is best practice to make one post, and cross-post from there.

    • NotoriousOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for the suggestions. I’ll get them added to my todo list.

      Apologize if I ran afoul of any code-of-conduct. Haven’t used the cross-post before and I wasn’t sure if it would work across instances.

      • SpziEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        added to my todo list.

        Awesome! Will check the communities again in the coming days.

        Apologize if I ran afoul of any code-of-conduct. Haven’t used the cross-post before and I wasn’t sure if it would work across instances.

        It’s just my belief of a best practice, I’m not even sure this is a shared sentiment. So, no worries :D

        The advantage of cross-posting is, each post will have a list of all the other communities in which it was posted, cross-referencing each other. It works across instances.