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

  • renard_roux@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    One of those things that sounds really cool and worth checking out, and then gets so complicated that it’s hard to bother because Lemmy, or possibly Jerboa, is too complicated (or the app’s not good enough).

    If I click the Lemmy.link link, it opens in an in-app browser window, so no subscribing to the communities available. Do I need to modify the URL somehow to make Jerboa understand the link is Lemmy compatible? If so, is there somewhere to do that?

    Thanks for sharing, and hope someone can help me understand how to get it working 😕

    • Notorious@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep. I was just trying to explain to my spouse how to subscribe to lemmy.link communities from their main instance. It is not intuitive at all. Unfortunately I don’t have an Android device, but if you go to the Communities tab on beehaw.org you should be able to search for the communities on lemmy.link.

      • renard_roux@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s the conclusion I came to as well, except they’re not showing up 😕 Or at least not the Explainers one, haven’t actually tested the others. I’ll try again later, thanks for the suggestion 😃

          • renard_roux@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I figured it out!

            https://beehaw.org/c/yt_explainers@lemmy.link

            This allows me to see the external community, but still within the Beehaw context, so I’m still logged in and can subscribe to the external community 😃👍

            So the formula (that works for me) is:

            https://beehaw.org/c/[somecommunity@someinsta.nce]

            Of course, I’m still on desktop, so not sure if this would work in one of the apps — I’ll test now 👌

            Found the solution here: https://lemmy.one/post/81779

            Update: The new link works in neither Connect or Jerboa, but !yt_explainers@lemmy.link seems to work in Jerboa now, if properly wrapped in link markup.

            ~~Just tried again, this time on desktop, no dice 😔

            If I go to Search and type in ‘!yt_explainers@lemmy.link’, I just get two comments (yours included) from this thread as a result. If I go to lemmy.link, I don’t have an account so can’t subscribe.~~___