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

  • Notorious@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    That is a great idea… I’ll start looking into it. The hard part is finding quality RSS feeds that don’t post a bunch of junk.

    • sukotai@beehaw.orgBEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      yes, i began to test : some post are real advertising and are annoying. You should be more selective on the RSS sources

      • Notorious@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yep. As I start to see which RSS sources are junk I’ll remove them and attempt to replace with better quality feeds. If you have any suggestions I’m all ears.

          • Notorious@lemm.eeOPEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Great catch! Can’t believe I didn’t already have that. I’ve added World News with BBC and Al Jazeera. Also added US News community with NBC and CBS US news feeds.

    • sukotai@beehaw.orgBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      do you know you can also convert subreddit into RSS feeds ? don’t know if it will work after 1 july but it’s an option

      • Notorious@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I considered this, but really would prefer to stay away from Reddit feeds. That feels like we’re trying to bring Reddit to Lemmy and imho Lemmy should be its own thing. I could be persuaded if they keep RSS feeds around post-July 1st.