!bbc_rss@crust.piefed.social - BBC. This contains several feeds in one community, tagged with flair to distinguish between them - use PieFed’s “membership” setting on the community to filter out the ones you don’t want.

!aljazeera_rss@crust.piefed.social - Aljazeera only provides a single RSS feed so it’s quite the mixed bag.

!rnz_rss@crust.piefed.social - RNZ, for a perspective from the edge of the world. Again, use flair to filter out.

!positive_rss@crust.piefed.social - positive news stories.

!long_reads_rss@crust.piefed.social - Axios, The Atlantic, etc. Has flair.

Posts in these communities are automatically deleted after 28 days, to avoid cluttering up people’s servers. Cross-post them into ‘real’ communities to discuss them.

PieFed recently added RSS-ingestion functionality - this is not done with an external bot-script thing. If you have some good RSS feeds, make an account on crust.piefed.social and go for it.

You can block @feed_bot@crust.piefed.social if these kind of bots annoy you. All the rss feeds on that instance use the same account.