Creating RSS Feeds within Discord

One of the places that I’ve really loved over the last few years is Discord. Discord evokes old school message boards and is used extensively by gamers to message each other and use VoIP. Yes, another corporate platform that may go completely south, but so it goes. They’ll sell out, we’ll pick up sticks and move on. Anyway, I use Discord to check out new music, to chat with collectives, to manage my lab and Digital Archaeology and Digital Heritage students, keep up with the Open Source Intelligence community, and…assemblage theory. Obviously.

I was looking around for ways to revive RSS feeds to start subscribing to blogs and whatnots, and found out that there are Discord bots that you can use to collate content. So I started another Discord server as my own private RSS playground to keep track of blogs. I added Axobot to the server and through a pretty simple command, @axobot rss add (website) I can add different blogs to different channels. There’s more detailed instructions at this link.

I think I’ll add some academic journals and such as well.