I created a community for a great humor RSS feed called Bits and Pieces. I then sent a message, from Mastodon, to @bot@rss.ponder.cat, and I added the following to the message as the only line in the message:

/add https://www.bitsandpieces.us/feed/ bits_and_pieces@rss.ponder.cat

But there was no response. Did I do it correctly?

  • Jerry@rss.ponder.catOPEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I sent a message from Mastodon to my PieFed user, and it never came, so I don’t think DMs between Mastodon and Lemmy work, after all. I don’t know how to DM the bot. I tried sending these three this morning to @bot@rss.ponder.cat from Mastodon but I doubt they arrived:

    /add https://www.drudgereportfeed.com/rss drudge_report@rss.ponder.cat

    /add https://www.fark.com/fark.rss fark@rss.ponder.cat

    /add https://www.borowitzreport.com/feed borowitz_report@rss.pondercat

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catM
      2·
      27 days ago

      Not a problem. Here’s what I did: I made communities for all four of the feeds, and I switched to community names without underscores:

      I was using a convention before of matching the community name with the hostname part of the URL, just for consistency.

      I moved the community images that you made over to the new communities, and made you a mod for all of those communities in case you want to do anything.

      I’m a little bit unsure about adding Drudge Report, since some time back it was a huge vehicle for misinformation, but looking at it now, it weirdly enough seems completely fine. Unless some reason comes up to exclude it I don’t have a problem with it.

      You may have to switch your subscription for bits_and_pieces to the new name, and can you delete the communities with underscores?

      Thanks and how does that all sound?