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Rss.ponder.cat is shutting down in about a week (rss.ponder.cat)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The RSS-to-lemmy server a few of us have be appreciating will soon be shut down.

If anyone wants a side project, a leftist implementation of this project would be really cool.

So it turns out .cat is only for Catalonia. I didn’t know this, just thought it was a neat hostname. So… they finally caught me not being Catalan, and they’re taking my domain away.

It’s sad. I’m not really sure what I plan to do, but in about a week, rss.ponder.cat will be no more. Sorry gamers. No promises but one possibility would be to set up a replacement instance, and just send everyone a DM with links to be able to get their subscriptions via the new instance instead.

People are going to complain at me about having to block the new bots, too. Hooray! Well, life goes on.

(It was published 3 days ago.)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah as much as the admin was a dork, this instance was a good idea and I got a lot of use out of it. I wonder what the monthly cost of a instance like this is. I could probably host a bot easily but not sure about a whole instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My understanding is that a small lemmy instance can be run on a minimal VPS like $5/month + domain. I think the time would be more of a consideration. Does running a lemmy instance sound like something you want to learn about?

The bot itself really doesn't look like it could be very much at all, assuming relevant prior knowledge. It just needs a little home. I'm going to try running it to see how it goes later.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Running an instance might be something I'm interested in. An RSS aggregator instance might be low maintenance enough for me. One thing I'd probably do is make the RSS posts themselves locked to encourage cross posting instead of having conversations in the RSS thread. Most likely not something I can do right now, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Could have the bot drop a single comment with links to the various cross posts