Ponder.cat RSS Meta

keyosc is the replacement forum for WATMM (We Are The Music Makers). Could we get these pulled in, please? Community name would just be keyosc

Also it would be really cool if a prefix could be added to the title of each post signifying the source RSS feed, like [Aphex Twin] or [Squarepusher], or a link to the source RSS feed in the body text of the post so you know where it came from.

Also if the sidebar could say something like "crosspost to !idm@lemm.ee "

If you could make me a moderator I can add the RSS feeds myself. I just think it's appropriate for the community to be on this instance.

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/7-new-upcoming-releases.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/9-live-music.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/17-so-many-machines.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/18-post-your-music.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/13-autechre.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/11-aphex-twin.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/20-aleksi-per%C3%A4l%C3%A4.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/12-boards-of-canada.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/14-squarepusher.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/29-%C2%B5-ziq.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/32-venetian-snares.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/36-in-the-mix.xml/

Substacks by left-leaning writers, with a bias for people who talk about concrete actions, protests upcoming, and in general more than just "here are more upsetting things for us to talk about while we wait for the end."

!lefty_stacks@rss.ponder.cat

Feedback is welcomed as are suggestions for new ones to add to it. I do want to keep it a little bit focused on ones that are action-oriented, not just any and all of the thousands of left-leaning writers churning out stuff, but if you want to talk about adding somebody, LMK and we can talk.

General news about Ukraine and the war.

!kyivindependent@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy!

Hi all. The Globalnews.ca feed is so festooned with spam articles that it's a constant struggle keeping the posts out of the main feed.

I really don't want to have bots that simply spam obnoxious stories into people's Lemmy front pages. There's a global blacklist for keywords like "daily deal" or "shop our", but then I had to add a whole separate blacklist for Globalnews. Currently it is (Amazon|Prime|gifts|deals|brands|with these|skincare) and it's constantly growing as people find new types of headline that aren't covered by it, and report them.

Is this worth it? Should I just remove Globalnews if they can't be a good citizen? I'm not subscribed, so it doesn't impact me at all, but like I say, I don't want to be spamming anyone else even if it's not an issue for me. Let me know your thoughts if you have any.

!globalnews@rss.ponder.cat is the community in question.

There's now a feed for Al Jazeera. It's an excellent source of news that is factual, vivid and coming from a Global South perspective. Highly recommended.

!aljazeera@rss.ponder.cat

Hi!

Would it be possible to add

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rss/search/1xePBFBNvSIhgdpjj8g-0nszUbxcwlDLTO--SZXWRvpgBezs5Z/?limit=15&fc=20250128071610

to !ketogenic@dubvee.org

I'm especially interested in getting the abstract into the post.

I usually stay away from putting up all those byzantine different options for big news outlets, but The Guardian is an especially good source of US news, and so:

!theguardian_us@rss.ponder.cat

Check it out. Hope you enjoy.

Feed of any new worldwide curiosities, as they get added to the atlas:

!atlasobscura@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy.

!bbc_us@rss.ponder.cat

BBC's feed of stories specifically for stories about the US and Canada.

Usually I stay away from offering the myriad of categories of feed for major news sources, to avoid duplication and chaos, but this one seems important.

Would it be possible to add one for TorrentFreak's news Feed? They're a free news source and have full RSS feeds.

Do people want me to filter out Youtube Shorts results? Some of the Youtube channels that are in these streaming communities post shorts sometimes, but I don't find them useful. I think they're just there to feed the algorithm to promote the main channel content.

I'll probably start filtering these, unless there is some kind of objection from people who really like Youtube Shorts to show up in their Lemmy feed.

Would it be possible to add a free for The Guardian? In the current political climate we need independent journalism and they recent quit Twitter, so it is time to drag them over to the Fediverse. Thanks.

Now that everyone's cancelling their WaPo and Amazon Prime subscriptions, it's a great time to subscribe to some better news sources.

Everyone needs to pay the bills. If places that tell the truth about what's going on keep starving for money, they're going to die, and that's bad. We'll have CNN and Sean Hannity and Amazon Prime News Brought to You By Jeff Bezos, and that'll be it.

If you do decide to do this, may I offer these Lemmy communities as easy ways you can keep subscribed to the new stuff that comes out of these once you're subscribed, and comment on them. It also doesn't have to be hard-paywall sources. A lot of places without paywalls still offer ways to donate and keep them alive, and I don't think they should get punished for doing that.

This is what I did today. I was going to subscribe to Foreign Policy and The Atlantic, but I balked at The Atlantic's yearlong sub. I just did FP, and I will probably subscribe to one other one at some point. Probably either MIT Technology Review or Mother Jones.

Here's a good list of stuff that I offer as Lemmy feeds. The sticky post has a more complete list, but some of the really good ones are:

Politics and News

• The Atlantic - !theatlantic@rss.ponder.cat
• ProPublica - !propublica@rss.ponder.cat
• Mother Jones - !motherjones@rss.ponder.cat
• Foreign Policy - !foreignpolicy@rss.ponder.cat (focus on in-depth policy issues)
• The Marshall Project - !themarshallproject@rss.ponder.cat (focus on criminal justice and police reform)

Tech News

• MIT Technology Review - !technologyreview@rss.ponder.cat
• Ars Technica - All Content - !arstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
• 404 Media - !404media@rss.ponder.cat

Environment and Climate

• Mongabay - !mongabay@rss.ponder.cat (great stuff)
• E&E News - !eenews@rss.ponder.cat (policy and enviro-politics focus)
• Inside Climate News - !insideclimatenews@rss.ponder.cat
• Grist - !grist@rss.ponder.cat (great)
• Nature - !nature@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy. Also! Make sure that you keep leaving those comments that just say, "Paywall," under the posts in communities which are all paywalled stories, posted by a bot called "paywall." That really helps me out when you do that, so keep doing it please.

In 1976, author and historian James Weinstein, along with a handful of journalists, moved to Chicago to launch an independent publication to inform and critically analyze the emerging new movements on the American Left. They called the publication In These Times.

They modeled their new publication on Appeal to Reason, a socialist newspaper from the turn of the century that once reached more than half a million subscribers. From the beginning, In These Times relied on the financial support of its readers, and the list of founding sponsors included Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Ellsberg and Michael Harrington.

In These Times carved out a unique space on the Left, bridging coverage of social movements with progressive electoral politics while publishing groundbreaking investigations that challenge the growing influence of corporations over government and our daily lives.

That legacy continues on to this day. Our journalism amplifies the ideas, strategies and tactics emerging from grassroots organizing and labor efforts across the country, providing the public attention and intellectual fuel that progressives need to leverage, build and wield power.

!inthesetimes@rss.ponder.cat

Hi Philip,

Would you consider adding a DNYUZ news feed? https://dnyuz.com/feed/

I'd try using the bot to create it, but it hasn't worked in the past

I created a community for a great humor RSS feed called Bits and Pieces. I then sent a message, from Mastodon, to @bot@rss.ponder.cat, and I added the following to the message as the only line in the message:

/add https://www.bitsandpieces.us/feed/ bits_and_pieces@rss.ponder.cat

But there was no response. Did I do it correctly?

Professor Richard L. Hasen is an internationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2020 as a CNN Election Law Analyst. He directs UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project.

This is his blog, along with a big panel of contributors and reposts from various news sources on topics of democracy and law.

!electionlawblog@rss.ponder.cat

The instances list is populated, but the communities are not, so I can't post to mander.xyz for example.

Ed Zitron's blog is so good that it deserves a whole community all to itself:

!wheresyouredat@rss.ponder.cat

Go read it.

I removed some spam from Globalnews.ca just now. Thanks for the reports.

These are real stories that are coming from the RSS feed, but that doesn't mean they belong here. Some free news sites just have feeds that include obvious spam. Presumably, they're trying to make money so they can stay in existence, which is fine, but that doesn't mean it needs to pollute these communities and the people subscribed to them

Currently, the blacklist, with some new additions from today's spam, is:

BLACKLIST_REGEXES = [
    r'Shop our top 5 deals of the week',
    r'Amazon deal of the day.*',
    r'Today.s Wordle.*',
    r'Wordle today:.*',
    r'.*NYT Connections.*',
    r'.*[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z].*[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z].*[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z].*',
    r'Daily Deal:.*',
    r'Shop our .*',
    r'.*\(on sale now.*',
    r'.*Big Deal Days.*',
    r'.*Way Day Sale.*',
]

The middle one with the capital letters is to filter out Youtube channels that like to include a lot of all-caps clickbait in their titles. If it goes beyond a certain level, the posts don't get put onto Lemmy.

If you see more spam, or stories that seem like pollution, keep reporting it. I might tell the bot to preemptively remove stories that get spam reports. There have been a couple of people who've tried to report things just because they disagree with them, but almost all the spam reports are legit, so it might make sense to default to that behavior and I can fix it up afterwards if people are reporting things bogusly.

I'll keep you posted. Thanks for the reports.

I don't want to have 100 different communities for slightly different news sources. I've been trying to focus on high-quality news outlets that do their own in depth journalism. I decided to add vox.com to that list:

!vox@rss.ponder.cat

I highly recommend that, if you like the stories this or one of the other in-depth outlets puts out, you subscribe to them. Ad-supported news is the death of information. There are people who are trying to make good quality information, and it helps the whole civil society function. That's one reason I have the paywall bot. Having an RSS feed on Lemmy that's focused on one and only one paywalled source solves the problem of paywalled sources going into news aggregation communities. There's no possible way you could subscribe to everything on offer in !news@lemmy.world, but you can subscribe to one or two paywalled services, and subscribe to their Lemmy communities. Win win.

Probably I'm dreaming. Anyway, Vox has a paywall for some stories. Once I realized that, I switched the entire channel to get posted by the paywall bot, even though most of the stories are free, so people don't run into the paywall and send me angry messages. Be aware.

Have fun.

!vox@rss.ponder.cat

Happy October! You can have some horror or creepy story themed streams:

• Blameitonjorge
• Mr. Ballen
• Fascinating Horror
• Scary Interesting

!horror_streams@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy!

Hi everyone.

I enabled the bot to add RSS feeds to any community. What you need to do is message this to bot@rss.ponder.cat:

/add {rss_url} {community}@{instance}

There are some other commands, to maintain any of the feeds:

• /add {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Add a new RSS feed
• /delete {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Delete an existing RSS feed
• /list {community}@{instance} - List all feeds for a community
• /help - Show a help message

I'm still testing out the command interface but I poked at it a little bit, and it worked a little bit. Try it out, let me know what you think, and if it gives you any trouble reach out to me.

You need to be a moderator of the community in order to subscribe to feeds within that community.

Enjoy! Have fun with it.

News stories about government policy, technology and legal issues, the impact of technological innovation on society, civil liberties and consumer rights.

!techdirt@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy!

New releases are a chance to talk about how a project is developing. I'm happy to make another post in a bigger community to get more feedback, but I wanted to check here first to see if this is something you might want to do @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat

A potential process could be

1. User makes a request in !meta@ponder.cat, and tags the relevant mod
2. If the mod approves, they can tag the admin of this instance to turn the feed on

There are also general communities that this could work for, such as !opensource@programming.dev or !selfhosted@lemmy.world, but those communities are active and may see this as spam. It may help to crosspost the bot posts to them instead.

Technical:

• This article had some information on creating feeds for GitHub.
• There may be a similar option for the GitHub alternatives.
• F-Droid would be cool, but I don't think that's possible yet

Potential issue: Repos with lots of pre-releases may feel like spam. Relevant issues here and here. Those repos could be skipped.

(sorry if this was already discussed)