I would absolutely love to see it! The biggest hurdle so far has been finding quality RSS feeds.

This is fantastic! Thank you!! I’ll work through the list and see what I can do.

Absolutely fair points and I already had the concern about being “fair and balanced”. The feeds I’ve added so far are either diverse (Youtube News is a great example: it contains both CNN and Fox News YouTube feeds) or are generally considered neutral (AP News and Reuters).

When it comes to UFOs and religion I’d have no problem adding them, but would absolutely break those out into their own communities. If someone is super interested in UFOs then they are welcome to subscribe to the UFO community with like minded people. Ultimately I’m trying to keep the number of feeds per community fairly low and make sure they are on-topic.

All that said I think it’s up to the community to upvote/downvote as they wish. That is really the power of link aggregators like Lemmy and Reddit. Crap gets downvoted into oblivion and the spicy nugs float to the top. Link aggregators do come with their own drawbacks (echo chambers and trolls to name two), but they are very powerful once you’ve found the right communities.

Thank you for the well wishes! Sorry it’s not right for you, but I really appreciate the feedback to make sure I’m executing this properly.

I was able to get them all subscribed on my Beehaw account. You’d want to search for !yt_explainers@lemmy.link to find the community.

You know what they say about great minds!

I initially went with Reuters, but their feed is a bunch of patting themselves on the back for breaking news. Maybe they have different feeds I can find. Did not think of AP, but I’ll get that one added because I agree that both are better (more neutral, fact based) sources.

That’s definitely not the goal. My vision of this project was to simply combine Lemmy + RSS. You get the benefit of news stream from RSS with the community upvotes/downvotes and comments of Lemmy. I had initially tried to set up TT-RSS and Newsblur, but both of them were difficult to set up and this felt like a better solution. I’m also extremely open to adding communities and feeds as requested… absolutely not trying to curate news for people.

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.

Great catch! Can’t believe I didn’t already have that. I’ve added World News with BBC and Al Jazeera. Also added US News community with NBC and CBS US news feeds.

Yep. As I start to see which RSS sources are junk I’ll remove them and attempt to replace with better quality feeds. If you have any suggestions I’m all ears.

I’ve added a programming community with Stack Overflow’s blog as a feed. I’ll see what else I can come up with.

Good idea. I’ve added a US Politics with The Hill. I’ll find some more feeds later.

I considered this, but really would prefer to stay away from Reddit feeds. That feels like we’re trying to bring Reddit to Lemmy and imho Lemmy should be its own thing. I could be persuaded if they keep RSS feeds around post-July 1st.

Absolutely! If you think of any others let me know.

That is a great idea… I’ll start looking into it. The hard part is finding quality RSS feeds that don’t post a bunch of junk.

I’m still actively working on it, but once it’s in a good place I’ll throw it up on GitHub and post it to !meta@lemmy.link

Great idea! Added it. Might take a couple minutes to refresh.

We’ll get that one up here shortly.

edit: and its now live. might take a couple minutes before the refresh runs.

That’s strange. I just received an update overnight for Mlem on TestFlight. Maybe it’s just closed to new registrations? IMO it is the most polished of the iOS apps.

It’s not that difficult to get a Pi 4. I wrote a python script that scraped rpilocator’s rss feed every 5 minutes and would notify my phone when one was available in the US. It went off basically every day around 8:30am PST when Adafruit would drop 100+ Pi4s. I’ve picked up two in the past week (one for my Voron printer and another for a RetroPi cabinet). They did sell out fairly fast… in about 10 minutes or so.