| Source site | Cohost page | Topic |
| Astronomy Picture of the Day | cohost.org/​APoD‑feed | From NASA! "Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer" |
| BlenderNation Education | cohost.org/​BlenderNation-Education‑feed | User-submitted video and written tutorials for Blender3D |
| Chips and Cheese | cohost.org/​Chips‑and‑Cheese‑feed | Cheap Complex Devices (weeklyish microprocessor CPU / GPU / SOC technical reviews) |
| The Future Fire | cohost.org/​The‑Future‑Fire‑feed | "Social, Political & Speculative Cyber-fiction" |
| Hackaday | cohost.org/​Hackaday‑feed | Hardware hacking |
| Lobste.rs | cohost.org/​Lobsters‑feed | Programming & tech news |
| The London Review of Books | cohost.org/​LRB‑feed | "Literary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers" |
| Metafilter | cohost.org/​Metafilter‑feed | A 1999‑era community weblog |
| Quanta Magazine | cohost.org/​Quanta‑Magazine‑feed | Popular science and maths magazine |
| Two Stop Bits | cohost.org/​twostopbits‑feed | Retro computing & gaming |
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in reply to @RSS-feeds's post:
Can you reuse the tags from the sources in their cohost posts? I have a number of lobsters tags hidden but still have to see them here on cohost and it would be nice to avoid them here as well (#ai, etc). Might also be good to tag them with #lobste.rs and #metafilter.com or somesuch, in case someone wants to avoid site-wide discussions/references to them.
I know you said in the Two Stop Bits announcement that you don't want to spam the cohost tags feed, maybe that's specific to Two Stop Bits, but for metafilter and lobsters, they do a pretty good job of keeping the tag counts low and not super consistent (so not a lot of the same things in a row).
That sounds sensible, i'll check if the API thing i'm using can still post tags over the weekend. Sorry for spoiling your feed until now!
Yes, i was worried about overwhelming some common tags with off-site reposts.
I don't think it matters much for NASA or whatever but I would be careful for doing this for blogs unless people are submitting their own blogs for the bot. A lot of people are not going to want their blog posts copied wholecloth to a social media site like this, I know I wouldn't. It's not quite the same as using an RSS reader in that regard.
I'm not going to add any feed which would expose someone to a large audience they weren't expecting, this is meant for news sites or public forums intended for general readership.
It started as a Cohost feature request before i realised i could just make it myself and save staff the effort, so my apologies there wasn't a written policy about what won't be added, i didn't realise one was needed. Thanks for raising the issue!
Looking forward to reading that policy after you publish it; I can see various sides of the issue....
Thanks for writing and publishing that policy! I personally was previously assuming that I could use this similarly to how I use other feedreaders, and it's good to understand that you specifically want this to be a way to encourage "conversation starters and places to gather around special interest news". Thank you!
Do you put any kind of notice or request anywhere visible on your blog to request that people not syndicate it?
It never occurred to me that I needed to put a notice on my blog that said "please don't make a social media account that reposts all my posts in full"
I'm not gonna sue anyone here (it didn't even happen to me in the first place) it just seems like...idk for lack of a better word tacky?