GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities.

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Hello everyone! 🎉

I’ve created an RSS Feed Bot that automates sharing news in Lemmy and Fediverse channels, helping to keep Fediverse users better informed. The bot is written in Python3 and can easily run via Docker Compose.

Hope you find it useful! 🚀

Lemmy #Fediverse #RSS #Python #Docker #Automation #OpenSource

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Comments in Selfhosted@lemmy.world

Great. More bot content on Lemmy.

 
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Hahah, it is just a RSS feed bot :'(...

In order to share more interesting articles easier to build communities.

 
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Interesting articles should be curated by humans before posting.

 
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... and enhanced by a sentence or two why it is worthwhile. Getting really tired of the no-effort link drops around here. Better yet, the same no-effort link drop to multiple similar communities on various instances.

Is there a block function for link-only posts?

Are there filters to prevent seeing duplicate content?

 
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I view this the same way i view reddit mirror bots. Flooding Lemmy with inauthentic automated content will reduce the overall community interaction and quality. Not all communities / instances allow this kind of content, so be sure to contact the mods before implementing it.

 
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People know what it is. That's why they're down voting it. These don't build communities.

We all have access to RSS and can create our own sets of feeds. Posts are for the things that are worth talking about. Spamming a community makes it harder to find the interesting things.

 
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I mean, I see a usecase for that, given you make a separate community for that, and not, say, spam c/technology with everything posted on XDA. So, kinda like RSS with comments. I personally follow hackaday both here and via RSS.

Alternatively, one can mirror someone who publishes rarely and only cool stuff. I remember mr.d0x being such a guy (now I don't really follow security-related things much, so mb it's changed, but I doubt it)

 
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Didn't someone create this same thing a few weeks ago? 🤔

 
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Comments in Fediverse@lemmy.world

Good stuff. You can also do the same by talking with bot@rss.ponder.cat, if you don't want to install something separate:

https://ponder.cat/post/248105

 
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Wow, nice project.

 
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You need a human to see what is actually interesting and what will be interesting to most people.

I've seen communities where hundreds of posts are scrolling by, nobody cares. Because it's not interesting.

 
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And do some comments / recap. I find annoying people just posting link without saying anything. IMHO lemmy is about people opinion not just sharing link.
If you want news links then rss reader, Google news, Flipboard or whatever are what should be used.

Not to say OP didn't do a good work. But Lemmy is better when you are not ending just clicking link to read articles.
So a suggestion would be at minimal to add an AI recap as post comment.

 
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rss reader, Google news, Flipboard

Those do not have votes. That's the main feature of a link aggregator: to get crowdsourced voting on content.

I post a lot, a lot of those articles don't need any comments, usually the article preview is enough for the readers to get a gist of what is going to be discussed in the article.

 
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Comments in Programming@programming.dev

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Cool but I don't think a community that only consists of RSS feeds is good.

 
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Yeah there's a reason lemmy.link is no longer around, it got annoying seeing a bunch of automated RSS posts that no one interacted with.

 
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