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
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.
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 😃
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.
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. Still doesn't work in Connect, which just says "Can't find user".
~~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.~~
___I believe Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.link, however they haven't said anything to me privately or publicly. The most recent post from a Lemmy.link community on Beehaw is over 3 days old. Beehaw is very serious about their curation/moderation and local communities, so I was not surprised to see them defederate. Unfortunately I think you'll need to hop instances if you want to sub to any of Lemmy.link's communities.
oh, yeah, this got lost in the shuffle because things are really hectic now but tl;dr the sheer firehose of content + the lack of curation are dealbreakers for federation here. it's not a personal judgement either--we also defed with lemmit, which mirrors content similarly. just way too much to deal with for us, but we do see the value of the project for other people lol
Ah, that explains a lot, thanks 😅