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

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    First … fuck yes!!

    Second … do you really need users on your instance?

    Third … I know you mentioned staying away from custom feeds … but would it be on the horizon to construct feeds of multiple lemmy/kbin communities into a single lemmy community? I don’t know how useful that would be, but seeing the “News” feed you’ve got immediately made me think the same could be done for the various News communities that have been started around the fediverse.

    Yes, people can subscribe to all the communities they like … but drilling down into a single community is a good way to make sure you don’t miss something if the content is important to you. Having a single meta-RSS-community for a bunch that you like could be really helpful.

    Obviously you don’t want to be in the business of allowing anyone to create their own custom feeds … but I’m sure there are at least a few that many would appreciate.

    Fourth … fuck yes!

    • Notorious@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      It makes me smile to see so many "fuck yes"s. Glad everyone is as excited as I was to launch it.

      I’m still debating allowing signups on my instance. That wasn’t really the goal of this project and managing a Lemmy instance with a sizable user base isn’t something I had in the scope of the project. More than likely it’ll stay how it is, but I don’t want to say I’ll never allow signups.

      I’ve seen a lot of chatter about meta-communities to solve the fragmentation issue. Hopefully that is something the devs have on their roadmap. Think there are still a lot of bugs and performance issues they need to work out first.

      The few communities I have built were just the big ones I could think of to get to launch. I’m more than happy to build out new communities or add/change/remove feeds as people have feedback.

      Fuck yes!