Comment on RSS newsfeed communities (BBC, New York Times, Ars)
otter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Very cool! I agree about avoiding most of the sub feeds.
If you don’t mind, could you add some Canadian news providers?
Not news, but if you think it might be nice, webcomics:
You may need an RSS feed detector for some of these. I don’t see a button on the site for a few, but I added them somehow a few months ago.
A more general thought/suggestion:
Have a general support community that people can post in, and pin a post from it on the instance so people know where to post with requests and ideas. You could also include a link to the communities page or some other list of all communities that are available. It could help with discoverability
This is an excellent idea. I made !meta@rss.ponder.cat and made a sticky post.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 months ago
I added !cbc@rss.ponder.cat and !globalnews@rss.ponder.cat for you.
I know there’s already !xkcd@lemmy.world and I wouldn’t want to duplicate that community. @koraro@lemmy.world do you want me to set up an RSS bot to post new comics to the existing lemmy.world community? If one doesn’t already exist? It’s easy to configure the RSS bot to post comics to a designated community for them, and I think that’s better than setting up a duplicate community.
otter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Forgot to say thanks yesterday, it looks good!
That makes sense to me about XKCD :) There’s also !comicstrips@lemmy.world for some of the other ones
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 months ago
Yep. I’m happy it’s working.
Comic strips seem like they have their own communities which I don’t want to collide with, and it’s logical, since the frequency of posting is so much smaller that a human can do the postings no problem.