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It's so dead in here (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca
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I wish it was a lot more active, I know I have to give it time for users to start using this community. The subreddit is one of the few I still check on reddit to get local news and local stuff.

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Can someone more talented than me set up a bot to automatically post local CBC articles here?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    CBC doesn't seem to have a feed for just Vancouver news.

    It might be a bit of overload just pulling things from the BC feed and dumping that here: https://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada-britishcolumbia.xml

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I probably could, there are Github repos with code to do exactly that, but I don't know if it's against the community or anything.

    Could probably set up a Bot to post local articles and whatnot from multiple sources.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I think there'd have to be some manual review or something for high value posts. If everything local gets posted it'll just start to feel like spam with no interaction.

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