I used to use flipboard, then once I got hooked on Reddit I got lazy and just started getting all my news from there.
Since this place is still getting its start thought I might go back to one to supplement me. Where you guys get your news?
Emacs Gnus + RSS
I generally just listen to public broadcast radio, then follow up any stories that interest me with an internet search to get a general idea of the story and weed out the biases.
RSS never fails me.
The decline (and perhaps fall) of reddit put me in the position of needing an Android RSS client/newsreader app for the first time. I want to say I used to use the functionality built into Firefox? Is that right? Anyway, for Android I’ve been using Inoreader. Seems to work ok. Mostly use it for the AP news RSS feed.
And when, for some reason, there isn’t an RSS feed given by the website, check RSS-Bridge and see if it has the site you want ;)
(and if it doesn’t, if you know PHP, consider contributing with your own bridge)
Wow! I’ve been a heavy RSS user forever, and this is the first I’ve heard of RSS-Bridge – thanks for this!
Just learned about it last week here on Kbin, because of the Reddit blackout.
I’ve been feeding a lot of sources to my RSS programs, and just found out a lot of sites either hide or don’t have RSS, so that project was enticing.
So I contributed with 4 sources to help it grow ahahah
I use Artifact on mobile. It has a neat feature which uses AI to rewrite titles marked by users as clickbait.
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.