Yesterday I posted about rss.ponder.cat, with communities automatically fed from a selection of RSS feeds. Today I made !meta@rss.ponder.cat, with:

  • A sticky-post roadmap of the RSS feeds that are already available
  • A place for people to request communities to be added
  • A place for me to post announcements about new communities

I don’t plan to spam !newcommunities@lemmy.world with every new RSS feed, but I figured I would let people know the location of the community that will get announcements about new RSS feed communities, in case they want to subscribe to it.

Cheers!

  • mark@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah this doesn’t make much sense to me either. The sudden influx of duplicate posts across Lemmy over the last couple of days makes it seem a little weird.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Can you give some examples? I don’t want it to become botspam. If the RSS bot is creating duplicate postings, then I may need to fix or adjust something.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Speaking as the operator of u/Auto_Post_Bot@social.packetloss.gg … I think it’s kind of inevitable with the current design of lemmy for folks that browse “all” instead of subscribed … and in some cases local.

        As an example, Auto_Post_Bot posts news post to !zed@lemmy.world and !zed@programming.dev (the latter is recent per request from the admin over there, as they don’t want centralized communities)… So if your instance is “subscribed” to both, it’s going to be a “duplicate” post in the “all” feed.

        • Ategon@programming.devEnglish
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          2 months ago

          On lemmy-ui if both posts are both “visible” in the feed they will be compacted into one post if they share the same link meaning there wont be a duplicate post (unless you paginate and theyre on different pages)

          Some other frontends such as sync dont do this though but they really should