i_ben_fine ,

I'm currently trying to retrieve my local gym's Facebook feed as RSS so I don't have to be on Facebook. It bites.

kreynen ,

@ginerel a few people in this thread have mentioned using Kbin or Mbin as something of an RSS curration tool. I'd like to learn more about that.

The Drupal community maintains an aggregate of feeds from 200+ sources with posts about the CMS. In the last year or so, the quality of the content is noticeably worse. Some community members are blaming Ai generated content...

Chat GPT, write a 1000 word blog post about Agile that mentions Drupal

I think the problem has more to do with how Google rewards "fresh" content that repeats keywords with higher page rank than a better written article posted 2 years earlier.

Regardless of the cause, a small group already running drupal.community for Mastodon has been discussing using up voting as a way to let the community curate the feed.

Would love any advice or examples on using Kbin or Mbin to empower a small community to curate RSS content.

originalucifer ,
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mbin is my rss reader. fediverse instance + bot

mozz Admin ,
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Which RSS bot do you use? I was going to make one for my RSS feeds, but if there already is one...

originalucifer ,
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for lemmy, its pretty straight forward with this bot

https://github.com/programming-dot-dev/rss-bot

for the 'bins, there doesnt exist a direct-to-mbin bot yet (i've been workin on it.. i suck at logins), in the meantime youd use a lemmy instance as intermediary:

you setup a non-public, localized lemmy instance, have the bot configured for your needs to grab feeds into communities, then subscribe from your 'bin instance.

kreynen ,

@originalucifer is there an issue/branch/fork where bins support is happening? I'd like to help with that if I can.

@ginerel @mozz

mozz Admin ,
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Yeah, I'd like to as well; I just messaged them asking about it.

mozz Admin ,
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Are you comfortable sending your work so far on the mbin bot? I did the same thing you did; I picked it up but then ran into the OAuth stuff and got confused. I actually have an RSS mbin bot that was going for a while that was based on just local database access, but working out the OAuth stuff seems like a better way and I'm happy to take another crack at it.

originalucifer ,
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ha, i dont because were in the same place... was playing with awesomebot, but then started attempting to hack the pangora bot starting with the login first, but i got roadblocked at the login and havent really had time to sort it.

Engywuck ,

Why should people stop telling other people what they should do in 2024...

testman ,

Problem is that the whole concept of advertising is "telling other people what to do".

  • People use Google.
  • Google tells people to use Chrome
  • Chrome becomes most popular browser
  • Chrome removes the " this site has RSS" icon from URL bar
  • People forget that RSS is a thing
  • People now rely on Google News and other biased sites to get information
  • biased sites tell people what to do

RSS is freedom
go tell other people to use it
also Lemmy RSS community

Engywuck ,

go tell other people to use it

I'm not going to tell anyone what they should do, sorry. And every site is biased, no matter what.

MrShankles ,

What RSS feeds (preferably without needing an account like NY Times) would people like to recommend? I recently set up Feeder on my phone and have been curating it

And is there a way to bypass soft-paywalls with an app like feeder?

themadcodger ,
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https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds

_thisdot ,
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One amazing RSS app I recommend to all Apple users is NetNewsWire. It’s Open Source and works very well. If Apple ever built an RSS reader, it’d be like this. It uses iCloud to sync between devices.

Lets you use a reader mode where it fetches readable content from the URL instead of just reading from the xml file.

And is very simple. If you use something like Feedly, it also works very well as a client for such services. I started using it like that, later just started using iCloud instead of Feedly

crank ,
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It’s Open Source

If Apple ever built an RSS reader, it’d be like this.

nope

_thisdot ,
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You joke. That’s not what I meant and if Apple did make an app it wouldn’t be Open Source.

But Apple does contribute to Open Source. They collaborated with KDE back when Microsoft was making fun of Linux

pineapplelover ,

Every since I started my blog, I've been using RSS feeds to follow other blogs. It's been pretty useful. Alligator and Thunderbird has been nice.

SamsonSeinfelder ,

Check out Selfoss, a self-hostable Online RSS tool, to browse and manage your feeds from the desktop and mobile

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