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

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    So it converts an RSS feed into a Lemmy community? That’s a really cool idea!

    • NotoriousOPEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      That’s the idea. Linkbot will scrape all of the feeds from the community sidebar and post new links from the RSS feeds.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Is the code for this open source? Could anyone add a link bot to their own private Lemmy instance with a custom collection of RSS feeds?

        • NotoriousOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I have plans to open source linkbot once I clean up the code. It was thrown together in a couple of hours yesterday, so it’s not well formatted. However, someone just commented on another post that they had just finished their bot and posted it to GitHub. I haven’t looked into it at all, but you can find the link to that comment here.

  • BrikoX@vlemmy.net
    English
    3·
    1 year ago

    Most sites post so much content of which majority is pure garbage so the bot posting whole feeds seems like a worse value than just following news communities that have more curated feed. But nonetheless good luck with the project.

    @Notorious@lemm.ee could you please mark @linkbot@lemmy.link as a bot account in settings?