A platform for posting (or searching) user-created RSS feeds - Does this exist? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 month ago by matcha_addict@lemy.lol to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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The use case I have in mind: say for example, I read a lot of articles about a certain topic, such as Linux or chemistry or whatever. I want to combine the articles I write into a singular feed, and for others to be able to follow it. Call it “Alex’s Linux Feed”.

Another use case: Suppose I follow a news source (like washington post), but maybe I dont like the formatting of their feed. Maybe it does not have the full article, or maybe it is not organized right (sports news is mixed with political news, and I want to separate them right). So I create my own feed where I organize those same posts better.

The reason this would be a platform because the user should not be burdened with hosting it (even if it is not difficult), and it should be searchable.

Is there any platform like this of user created RSS feeds?

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[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Pretty much all of the activitypub services out there offer RSS feeds, so if you want user-created RSS content you can subscribe to the Feed of a community or user on Lemmy, or a user on Mastodon.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I recently made a tool that let's you export your saved posts and comments as a RSS feed. The info is here. Might fit your use case - you could create a new user and save only the posts that interest you.

Edit: Additionally, these seem like they might fit:

Note that as far as I can tell, your use case is not the primary use case of those platforms but they seem they might be able to be used like that.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More or less Lemmy can do that. Communities offer RSS feeds generated by their users.

Here's the RSS feed for the comics community

[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol -1 points 1 month ago

While I love the idea, many RSS users may not use Lemmy, and I would not want to restrict the use of this to lemmy users only. But for now, this seems to be the best existing option. Thank you!

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You don't have to use Lemmy to use it. You just have to copy the URL. Then as people create new posts in the community they will show up as entries in the RSS feed. You don't need to be logged in or subscribed to a community.

[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 0 points 1 month ago

You would need to use lemmy to publish the feed, right?

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I mean yeah, that applies with any service that uses an RSS feed. RSS is just a syndication protocol, it's meant to only broadcast. If you want to contribute, you'll need to be a part of the service which is broadcasting i.e. Lemmy or Mastodon.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Well yes that's true. To publish yes. But not to follow etc. About the only other option. Considering how obscure RSS is unfortunately. Is the old-fashioned way. Get a free linode basic server. Edit the RSS and upload it to the server. Someone might be able to slap together a basic GUI to handle the simple XML. Appending to the top and then sending it via FTP. But then that's just a lot of work to not use Lemmy.

I may be mistaken, but I think most activity pub services offer RSS. Kbin/Mbin Mastodon etc.