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.
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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:
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?
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.
What was frustrating for me is they'd offer 20 Elon Musk articles daily, but now that they allow you to remove articles that match keywords, I've been much happier w/ my experience
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.
I dusted off my Feedly account. You can follow up to 100 publications for free. For me, that's more than enough to get the main U.S. and world headlines, plus a few special interests. I like to sort by Popular + Latest or just latest.
You can sort by Most Popular if you pay $6 a month. I never felt a need to try that. The free version is easy to use, looks nice, and keeps me informed. Hot stories are marked with green text and a green arrow, so they're pretty easy to spot.
I set it up years ago. Just added every newspaper or news site I could think of, plus whatever looked interesting from r/worldnews and a few other subreddits.
When I deleted my Facebook account a good five years ago, I started using RSS to get my news. I also use Feedly. I like how the app looks, I still use the legacy one, as it's simple and I'm used to it.
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?
I also use NewsBlur as my backend organizational tool and catelog, then the Unread app on ios as my frontend reader because it's so simple and nice to look at.
I get a lot of news from HackerNews, but that's not really world news as much as "internet news." (and even then, just one corner of the internet news.)
As for irl news, it's primarily on Twitter from some journalists who have political views related to mine (so enthusiastically anti-Trump). Also, you'd be surprised how much /r/vexillologycirclejerk kept up with the news cycle, and I hope /m/vcj does the same soon.
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.