So as I’ve mentioned previously here and here, I intend on building a leftist RSS instance. Well, I have finally done it! Not without some learning along the way. I’ve created an instance called news.abolish.capital, which currently has three main communities, !china@news.abolish.capital, !latam@news.abolish.capital, and !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital.
I’ve ported over all the RSS feeds from lefty_news on ibbit.at, I’ve also removed as many rss feeds from ibbit.at that the bot commands would allow (some are still stuck). This was a real learning experience, and one that I think will help me with future projects for sure. If you want to supply new feeds for the site, you can put in a request at !Meta@news.abolish.capital.
This has been in the works for a little while now, but given the current situation with ibbit.at it seemed like a good time to break away from that site.
You can see the RSS feed list here. As well as the code for the RSS bot here.
Abolish Capital might expand into other sites and services; I have some other ideas floating around that I might want to experiment with. For right now, the front page of abolish.capital hosts the full text of the Communist Manifesto, you know, because I can! I view this as the start of a larger effort to build what I think is appropriately called The People’s Web or the Working-Class Web. A subsection of the Indieweb movement, built by working people for working people.
Great work comrade, and good luck!
Thanks Cowbee!
Why is it always Philipthefuckhead and PissJesus.
The liberalism is strong within them both.
What do they have to do with this?
Besides being extra annoying and controlling anywhere they have a mod position Philip is threatening as an admin of ibbit to defederate from lemmy.ml and dbzero after he recieved a 3 day temp ban for being a dick across the whole dbzero instance.
Apparently he feels that if he is banned for a few days then those lemmy instances can be defederated from his RSS not posting instance.
He was also in PTB trying to defend his actions which resulted on more bans I think…
Either way these particular users seem to hate Marxists and anyone who is further left then Bernie or AOC in the US.
Great job, comrade.
Glad to see you launch this!
I think the font + effect on the subheader text (the one that has serifs rather than block print and projects into the background) is a little bit harsh. I’m also probably more on the sensitive side in that respect and it’s only a very small amount of the total text, so don’t worry about it too much.
Youre talking about on abolish.capital I take it. Yeah its a bit extreme I admit. I can tone it back when I have a moment. Thanks for the feedback!
7·15 days agoCool
!Meta@news.abolish.capital seems to be locked, so no new posts can be made. You can still make comments on the one post already there though
Fixed!
What’s RSS? Regardless, thanks for your work!
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s one of the oldest ways of getting updates for things on the internet, and the fact that it’s mostly used for podcasts these days is a real shame. It’s a great way to get content that you want to see, without having to be subjected to algorithms or advertising.
oh great timing!
They say timing is everything.
AI is taking my job
Lets goo
