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I follow a few sites but can’t filter Lemmy by domain or follow domains, so I want to create a community where a bot reposts my RSS feed to surface the most interesting items from those sources. Which Lemmy instances or communities are bot-friendly, have signups enabled, and permit this kind of mass automated posting?

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

You could run your own.

Running an RSS reader is probably a lot easier though.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think that the guys at lemmy.dbzer0.com might not be against it

Although, I think one community containing all the feeds you are interested of might be a little bit too personal for a general population instance. It might be better to set up your own instance, with just one community and join it from the account you use

There is also ibbit.at !meta@ibbit.at but with that one, I guess you will have to ask for separate communities per feed and the admin does care about the type of content it would be pulling

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah not us. While we're automation friendly to an extent, we're looking for organic context for posts

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, sorry. I remembered you having a bunch of Stable Diffusion communities, so I thought maybe such thing might fit your vibe

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, those are not for automated posting. We expect people to post their best results by hand.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever verified that?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

We don't have that many posts in them, and I know the primary posters

[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

There is also ibbit.at !meta@ibbit.at but with that one, I guess you will have to ask for separate communities per feed and the admin does care about the type of content it would be pulling

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, and I see the sources I wanted are already there, so there's no need to post my own.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Please don't

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you are familiar with Azure there is the project PandaCap by @lizard_socks@lemmy.world which is a self-hosted reader for activity-pub, ATProtocol, RSS/Atom and integrated with DeviantArt and other art sites.

https://lakora.us/pandacap/

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ASP.NET Core Identity is backed by an in-memory database (since 11.1.0); the only allowed login method is via Microsoft account, but DeviantArt and Reddit accounts can be added in user management (which will connect these accounts to Pandacap's main database).

Does this literally mean I need a Microsoft account to run this on my own machine, or is that only for deploying on Azure?

[–] lizard_socks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You'd need to change the code so it uses some other OAuth provider to log in - and presumably to check the username that comes back from the OAuth provider to make sure it's yours. It would probably be pretty simple, I just haven't written it myself. Since I deploy it to Azure, it was already dependent on me having a Microsoft account, and I didn't want it to depend on a second account too.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

I see, thanks for the explanation!

I've been working on a frontend/browser client for "exploring" activitypub instances in my spare time, and CORS basically requires me to have some sort of separate server process that can fetch and auth using my account(s). I'm unsure of how much sense it would make to try to bolt my client on top of your software, but at least now I know I can try without needing to involve a Microsoft account.

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

@lizard_socks@lemmy.world can you clarify?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Strays a bit from what you asked so ignored if not welcomed, but in case it helps, or in case there's a way to have microblogging posts appear on Lemmy:Sending RSS feeds to bots such as @birb@rss-parrot.net or @owner@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com should give a bot profile to follow a given feed's updates. And both should be usable from pretty much any Mastodon instances, making the potential usable instances much broader. Two small things to note however, first the Studio Rafflesia's bot's usage rules are in Japanese so potential language barrier there, and second and confirmed by the author, sending a feed to RSS Parrot through Mbin doesn't work.

Other than that, and in line with the question, I second !meta@ibbit.at.