Hello everyone!
If you moderate a community, and you want to get automatic posts from an RSS feed, now you can. It can be used for release posts for a FOSS project, infrequent blog postings that are relevant to your community, or things like that.
To do this, send a private message to bot@rss.ponder.cat. The commands are:
- /add {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Add a new RSS feed
- /delete {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Unlink an existing RSS feed from the community
- /list {community}@{instance} - List all feeds for a community
- /help - Show this help message
Please don’t spam. You need to be a moderator of the community to modify its feed settings, but it’s still possible for moderators to spam the rest of their instance with nonsense. Be a good Lemmy. If you’d like an RSS feed that’s going to post a lot, and you want to separate it into a place where it won’t invade the rest of Lemmy in a flood, send me a message and we can work it out.
Enjoy! Have fun.
Thank you!
No to all. This particular tool is only for communities on other instances. It doesn’t interact with the big feeds on rss.ponder.cat.
rss.ponder.cat is for the all-RSS-post communities that I’ve been making. A lot of them will be pretty heavy on their posting, so some people may prefer to block the whole thing wholesale. I can add communities if people request it, but it’s something I want to be a little bit careful with, so as not to create too much spam.
This new tool is designed to add RSS feeds to communities outside of ponder.cat. Something like releases of a FOSS project, weather updates for a city, things like that. The moderators of those communities can use the bot to do whatever they want within their communities, without having to involve me.
No, you can issue multiple commands. It should work fine. Of course if it gives you any issues, you can let me know.
Edit: Otter already answered, I just didn’t see it. I’m leaving it for posterity, though.