Submitted 3 weeks ago by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to fediverse@lemmy.world
I follow a few sites but can’t filter Lemmy by domain or follow domains, so I want to create a community where a bot reposts my RSS feed to surface the most interesting items from those sources. Which Lemmy instances or communities are bot-friendly, have signups enabled, and permit this kind of mass automated posting?
You could run your own.
Running an RSS reader is probably a lot easier though.
I think that the guys at lemmy.dbzer0.com might not be against it
Although, I think one community containing all the feeds you are interested of might be a little bit too personal for a general population instance. It might be better to set up your own instance, with just one community and join it from the account you use
There is also ibbit.at !meta@ibbit.at but with that one, I guess you will have to ask for separate communities per feed and the admin does care about the type of content it would be pulling
Nah not us. While we’re automation friendly to an extent, we’re looking for organic context for posts
Ah, sorry. I remembered you having a bunch of Stable Diffusion communities, so I thought maybe such thing might fit your vibe
There is also ibbit.at !meta@ibbit.at but with that one, I guess you will have to ask for separate communities per feed and the admin does care about the type of content it would be pulling
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, and I see the sources I wanted are already there, so there’s no need to post my own.
Please don’t
If you are familiar with Azure there is the project PandaCap by @lizard_socks which is a self-hosted reader for activity-pub, ATProtocol, RSS/Atom and integrated with DeviantArt and other art sites.
ASP.NET Core Identity is backed by an in-memory database (since 11.1.0); the only allowed login method is via Microsoft account, but DeviantArt and Reddit accounts can be added in user management (which will connect these accounts to Pandacap’s main database).
Does this literally mean I need a Microsoft account to run this on my own machine, or is that only for deploying on Azure?
You’d need to change the code so it uses some other OAuth provider to log in - and presumably to check the username that comes back from the OAuth provider to make sure it’s yours. It would probably be pretty simple, I just haven’t written it myself. Since I deploy it to Azure, it was already dependent on me having a Microsoft account, and I didn’t want it to depend on a second account too.
@lizard_socks can you clarify?
Most instances will let u create Jr own community to do that but u won’t get any human sorting ap lied that way without building a community around it. Most people would be upset if u did it in existing public comms. I run !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com where I do a similar thing but with AI summaries. The bot is foss and takes RSS feeds as the input.
So should I ask the admin first or it’s fine if I just make my own community there and run the bot to post my RSS feed?
I’d recommend asking the admin imo
I’d stay away from Hilarious Chaos, it’s an offshoot of Exploding Heads and the admin, mods and users are all terrible people.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
Strays a bit from what you asked so ignored if not welcomed, but in case it helps, or in case there's a way to have microblogging posts appear on Lemmy:
Sending RSS feeds to bots such as @birb or @owner should give a bot profile to follow a given feed's updates. And both should be usable from pretty much any Mastodon instances, making the potential usable instances much broader. Two small things to note however, first the Studio Rafflesia's bot's usage rules are in Japanese so potential language barrier there, and second and confirmed by the author, sending a feed to RSS Parrot through Mbin doesn't work.
Other than that, and in line with the question, I second !meta.