I generally avoid news aggregators because I see them as an extra layer of filter between news publishers and me. I just regularly follow a number of national and international publications as a habit.
Yea I'm trying to get away from the political bias and echo chambering a singular news source gives you, but at same time like aggregators for being time efficient. That ground.news another person shouted out actually seems really interesting and to fit the bill. It gives you multiple viewpoints of each trending news story and labels what bias they are leaning.
But they will still get to decide which news stories should be given prominence and if they are your only source, you will never know if they omit some less 'trendy' but important story. News publications do this as well, but if you follow enough of them with varying editorial leanings, it kind of fixes that issue. You could set up a RSS feed aggregator to achieve this as well I guess.
True true, maybe I just need a good mixture in an rss, decent aggregator + my own curated primary news sources. Tbh the thing I like best about a good aggregator is it’s kinda like Reddit, occasionally you will get a great off the wall article from a a source you would of never of followed or had on your own rss. Such as a local news for somewhere you don’t even live.
Yeah, there is nothing wrong in going through news aggregators. I just don't find it wise to use them as the only source of news or even the primary source, like many do.
And there is also the fact that the more influential news aggregators become, the more dependent news publishers (especially the small newsrooms who struggle with readership and revenue streams) will be to them. And since the popular ones are mostly run by big tech, that's not good anyway whatsoever.
Kbin all the way, also as de-federated community. That said, now that I'm getting the gist of selecting the instances and magazines I want, enjoying the federated content has also become easier.
I used to use Feedly to aggregate RSS feeds and then rely on Reddit subbreddits for discussion on topics for the "hello person who wrote/made thing discussed"
Lazerpig/Perun both had "Ground News" as adverts, you can treat it as a RSS Feed Reader, but it also tracks mainstream news sources.
The nice part is I used to follow The Guardian and The Telegraph for opposing news stories, that's effectively built in, you see each story with all sources reporting on it and where they lie politically.
It has a "blindspot" feature which pushes stuff your not looking at. Initially it was pretty "here is random us state politics" which as a British person I don't care. The blindspots are now british focussed, I still don't care but atleast its British things I know off and don't care about (Like Prince Harry).
It costs £2.99 per month, so I'll share my referral. I don't i believe I don't get anything from it but it gives a 1 month free trial. https://ground.news/download and use this referral code 9409938.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I'd seen Ground News before, but I didn't think it was anything more than all the other news aggregators. Your description, however, has made me really interested!
Can you comment on the benefits of subscribing at the various levels versus the free tier?
I've not tried Kbin myself, but I've poked around it and the husband is on there so I've had a detailed tour. Initially picked Lemmy because I found the design of it in general to be more modern and pleasing, and seeing him use Kbin has definitely reinforced that choice for me.
Then I see threads with tons of people saying it's the exact other way round and Lemmy looks too old fashioned for them!
So I guess what I'm saying is we're all just clueless apes who have no idea what we're talking about and it's good there's an option for everyone 😆
I'll probably make a Kbin account at some point anyway though since that's the easier codebase for me to contribute to.
I think people can make logical points for and against each, but yeah it really just boils down to personal preference. I like Lemmy better myself, and most of the complaints I see about it will be smoothed out in due time.
This looks seriously good! Could you help me understand the benefits of subscribing? They mention things like "Compare Articles from 50,000+ News Sources" and "Media Bias Ratings" but it looks like I can get that without subscribing.
Really dont know what you get from subscribing.. even when browsing down low and clicking for more articles you get a "subscribe to read more" popup but just pressing ESC lets you read the newly loaded articles anyway.. I like the new ChatGPT summary for left / right media narratives and the Ownership tags of the different outlets.. really paints a clear view of the narrative being pushed by different outlets
I've been using Mastodon (i follow the NYT, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Reuters, and some other news sources). I also look at link / forum sites like Hacker News. I've been trying out the following, too:
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it’s not continuous, it’s half a dozen different things intertwined – play for an hour in a game, add a paragraph to a book, get out into the garden for half an hour – cumulatively each individual item adds up (“a journey of a thousand miles”) but it’s an accumulation of a million steps …
when it’s a form of escapism, your mind will come up with all sorts of justifications – “I just listened to that client for a couple hours, I deserve a few minutes of game play”
News . Google is my main source of need since I already have a Gmail. I like how you can customize what you see by choosing to "see less" "not interested in these topics" and "hide from X source" it really helped curate what news I'm actually seeing and it updates quite frequently
It's good, but my Pihole blocks a lot of the articles because most of the links use amp, meaning they are tracking everything you click through it. This is from a purley mobile\android perspective in my case, but I'm sure the desktop experience isn't far from it.
I really want to know as well, I'm getting closer to cracking the code, but a LOT of it has to do with how you manage stress in your daily life.
I've been putting in lots of hours and lines of code, artwork, and writing in one of my recent projects, and the main reason I've been able to do that at all is that I not only do it when I'm the most relaxed, I also change up what I'm doing to keep things fresh.
Writing hitting a wall? Try drawing!
Can't draw worth shit because you lost your creative drive? Program something!
Can't program because you are giving yourself a migraine by calculating all that nonsense? Dunno, play Minecraft or Watch youtube!
Bored of the games? Try writing!
I've been basically rotating everything I do and that helps a whole lot with keeping stuff moving. It's better to just not focus on something for too long, only little bits at a time. And those bits all add up to the 1000's of hours.
I used to be very different.
As a kid, when Space Engineers came out, I played that shit so hard that I clocked 15,000 hours in no time. I would play during the day, after school, at night, during the summer, holidays, all the fucking time.
But the result? I burnt out on it so hard that even to this day I cannot fathom touching it again, and it's a game I love!
So take your time, be patient, and stay committed.
What was your experience finding rss feeds for people you've been following on twitter? Do you have to look up everyone individually and hope they have a blog or site like that?
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