Meta discussion, requests for RSS feeds, complaints, insults, et cetera.
If you want to add an RSS feed to your pre-existing community, you can do it just by messaging the bot. More info here:
https://rss.ponder.cat/post/34622
It sounds like you did everything right, but for some reason the bot hasn't gotten the message yet. Does sending a message from Mastodon to Lemmy work? Can you try sending me a message?
Regardless, I added the feed for you, so it should be all set.
Edit: It definitely would be nicer if it would import the body and image, too, although that's a little bit complicated since it would have to translate HTML to markdown, I think. Are you reading this from Mastodon? How do they look to you?
I'm actually reading and replying from my PieFed instance.
Thank you for setting up the group for me!
I just sent you a message from my Mastodon instance. Messages to/from Lemmy to/from Mastodon should work.
I just started following both this group and bits_and_pieces from Mastodon and from Friendica. Friendica does recognize both as type "Groups".
I haven't seen a post yet from bits_and_pieces come in to either one yet since I just started following. I'll post here how they look in both applications. In PieFed, what I see is identical to how it shows in Lemmy.
I sent a message from Mastodon to my PieFed user, and it never came, so I don't think DMs between Mastodon and Lemmy work, after all. I don't know how to DM the bot. I tried sending these three this morning to @[email protected] from Mastodon but I doubt they arrived:
/add https://www.drudgereportfeed.com/rss [email protected]
Not a problem. Here's what I did: I made communities for all four of the feeds, and I switched to community names without underscores:
I was using a convention before of matching the community name with the hostname part of the URL, just for consistency.
I moved the community images that you made over to the new communities, and made you a mod for all of those communities in case you want to do anything.
I'm a little bit unsure about adding Drudge Report, since some time back it was a huge vehicle for misinformation, but looking at it now, it weirdly enough seems completely fine. Unless some reason comes up to exclude it I don't have a problem with it.
You may have to switch your subscription for bits_and_pieces to the new name, and can you delete the communities with underscores?
Thanks and how does that all sound?
Thanks, Phil.
I agree about Drudge, and I ignored the report for years. But, like you, of late, it seems fine, so I've been following it. I too would abandon it if it goes back to misinformation.
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