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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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just thinking about this now, but a dedicated instance is also good because the RSS posts do not clog up the Local feed. Whereas if you browse local exclusively, you'll sift through lots of RSS feed posts.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I like that, and I also like the idea of having a place that's a curated news site that you can go to. Forgetting the lemmy aspect of it. People used to have "blogrolls" that worked like that sorta. But more ephemeral. After a while, once a lot of articles had accumulated, the site search would be useful to look stuff up.

I think that if the posting account declares itself as a bot, it'll show up less or not at all in default feeds but I am not sure. If they did show up then anything but an extremely quiet feed will get banned for sure.

That's why I was planning to experiment on a larger instance. Less likely to bother anyone amidst the sea of linux memes.