Ghost and Flipboard are federated, so newsletters and blogs that publish there automatically create activitypub messages. It would be awesome if we could have some way to automatically add posts to a community for which posts would be relevant. For instance, if I were to move my the community for my city's soccer clubs to piefed, it would be awesome if I could create a post automatically for the local coverage here on the fediverse publishing on ghost. I'm not certain what the best way to do that would be -- allowing communities to follow other actors would mean we could have posts straight from ghost and flipboard, plus we could aggregate up various communities into multi communities (I could run one for both the men's and women's sides for all the local soccer clubs and aggregate them up into a ${city}_soccer multicommunity, and would allow us to do the migration from the legacy lemmy community cleanly (since I could follow the old lemmy community and see posts made in the old community), and would allow me to follow bot actors who post from federated sources like bluesky (for instance via brid.gy) or twitter (for instance via sportsbots.xyz), but the existing rss communities proposal would probably also make sense, especially if it allows us finer granularity on separating posts based on topic (for instance, the local newspaper sometimes combines different teams into the same rss feed, but I would want to have separate communities). It's also possible a bot is the best solution, but taking api traffic seems like an inefficient way to handle this.
A good article, but as a millennial, I was completely unprepared for the 2 psychic damage I took from this sentence: