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Did I do this the right way? (rss.ponder.cat)
submitted 5 months ago by Jerry@rss.ponder.cat to c/meta@rss.ponder.cat
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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?

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[–] Jerry@rss.ponder.cat 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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 @bot@rss.ponder.cat from Mastodon but I doubt they arrived:

/add https://www.drudgereportfeed.com/rss drudge_report@rss.ponder.cat

/add https://www.fark.com/fark.rss fark@rss.ponder.cat

/add https://www.borowitzreport.com/feed borowitz_report@rss.pondercat

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.