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what are your news sources? (programming.dev)

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 46 points 2 years ago

World news:

!theguardian@rss.ponder.cat - The Guardian
!aljazeera@rss.ponder.cat - Al Jazeera

Climate / environment:

!insideclimatenews@rss.ponder.cat - Inside Climate News
!mongabay@rss.ponder.cat - Mongabay
!grist@rss.ponder.cat - Grist
!planetizen@rss.ponder.cat - Planetizen

US News:

!theguardian_us@rss.ponder.cat - The Guardian US
!bbc_us@rss.ponder.cat - BBC US

Tech and tech politics:

!arstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat - Ars Technica
!404media@rss.ponder.cat - 404 Media
!theregister@rss.ponder.cat - The Register
!techdirt@rss.ponder.cat - Techdirt

US Politics:

!motherjones@rss.ponder.cat - Mother Jones
!propublica@rss.ponder.cat - Pro Publica
!electionlawblog@rss.ponder.cat - Good Politics / Political Law Blog
!drudgereport@rss.ponder.cat - The Drudge Report (I know! I'm as shocked as anybody. With a good-sized blacklist of crap sources in place, it's actually pretty informative)

[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Rss is the way

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Using this thing right here as an RSS reader! TIL.

mongabay@rss.ponder.cat - Mongabay

An excellent source that I'm ashamed I only discovered recently. Consistently first-rate independent journalism on literally the most important subjects there are. Should be better known. Read. Donate.

Great other choices too.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago

Wow you can use Lemmy as an RSS feed? Will these posts overpower local stuff though?

Hopefully me clicking on these won't mean the all view on my instance is now completely overtaken by this stuff...

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 years ago

Depends on exactly which ones you subscribe to. I sub'd to the Guardian and was immediately overwhelmed.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't think it should. "Active" sort should mostly only show the ones that have some user engagement to them, and "Scaled" sort should only show ones that are either from a few minutes ago, or have a handful of upvotes to them, or from sources that very rarely post. "Scaled" is honestly pretty good, IDK why it is not the default.

Also, I make an effort not add feeds to it willy-nilly and to blacklist ones that tend to post spam or other stupid content. Some admins will remove everything from rss.ponder.cat from their front page feed, also, which makes sense to me.

I was a little bit surprised to see that only a few of them are federated to slrpnk right now. These are already subscribed to from slrpnk, though, so you can check them out without a trace of guilt:

It's honestly a very pleasingly slrpnk-vibe collection of communities. 😃

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah Mongabay is on the list thanks to me, and I'll have to check out the others.

I looked at a few sorting mechanisms and it does seem to be OK with the exception of new and scaled. Scaled in particular had a lot of posts from Mongabay, but maybe this is just because it was recently federated for the first time? I'll check back and see if it subsides after a little while. I hope it does because while I don't really use the all view, I know some people who do are very bothered by these types of frequent bot posts, including one of our admins.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 years ago

Hm.. oh, I got it. Yeah, forget what I said about "Scaled."

And yeah, I'm bothered by frequent bot posts. I just recently unsubscribed from a bunch of fedia.io stuff because of it. I tried to be pretty selective about what feeds to add, refused a couple of requests for some ones, added spam filters for sources that like to sprinkle advertising into their articles, that kind of stuff. But I do agree, having anything that's automated blasting into the feeds is probably a thing to be minimized unless people have specifically opted in to it. If there is something I can do from my end to make it less that way let me know, I've done pretty much all I could think of to make it less obnoxious.

Programming.dev, I know, is one of the places that removed rss.ponder.cat from their "All" feed for that reason, so you still have the option to subscribe, but it defaults to hidden. I don't know how to do that but if the admins want to do it, they could ask, I'm sure it's pretty simple.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh that's an interesting idea. Seems like it would be the ideal solution if it's not overly difficult to implement. @poVoq@slrpnk.net FYI, not sure if this is something that you'd like to investigate. We're discussing this RSS feed feature which seems quite useful but might create problems for the all view. If there is a similar option for the various Lemmit bots, it might solve that problem as well.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hmm, not sure how they did it. To my knowledge that is only an upcoming feature although now that I think about it I somewhat remember that it was already partially available in the current release backend but not exposed in the UI or so 🤔

Edit: indeed: https://mv-gh.github.io/lemmy_openapi_spec/#tag/Admin

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Cool so it is possible. Seems like a good solution to the problem of automated communities that put out a lot of posts.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

You're my hero.

Brb setting up RSS feeds on every device I've got

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

ground news

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You're single-handedly saving this entire thread. I was about to delete it for being off topic.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 2 years ago

Lmao

Happy to help

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I'm usually trusting Reuters or AP news

Though I've heard of ground.news and have been thinking about subscribing, DAE have experience with them? Are they as unbiased as they claim?

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Reuters usually has half decent articles, but they're owned by billionaires out of Canada. This look into them was done late last year: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174374

AP has some sketch board members as shown here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174861

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While Reuters is obviously written from a neoliberal perspective, I think as long as you are aware of that, their coverage is fine. It's very fact based. It's designed to provide information for investors who are trying to make money from current events, so they have an incentive to do accurate coverage, but of course they will mainly cover things that are relevant to the finance world.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 2 years ago

Agree. The whole idea of "balancing" news coverage by combining together US-left and US-right is pretty boneheaded, but there's actually a solid concept somewhere in there. I think combining factually strong sources, with a genuine variety of slants and takes on the news, will set you up to understand things pretty well. Reuters / NYT / Wapo is okay (for now), Al Jazeera is okay, The Guardian or some other establishment-left news is okay, and all of them are mostly unlikely to just straight-up lie to you factually, so if you combine them I feel like you're set up with a decently complete picture of the facts. And then of course there are details and opinions that can come in a lot higher quality from some other more niche sources.

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[-] bigboismith@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

My local government news. Call me a sheep but since they don't farm clicks they seem to have the most nuanced and engaging stories. For-profit news these days are just doom-posting and rage bait.

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 4 points 2 years ago

@bigboismith You're probably referring to some sort of public broadcaster, right? That's actually quite a good source if the management is not politically controlled/infiltrated in any way by any political party

@fuzzy_feeling

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I try to stick to AP/Reuters. They tend to be more direct and less wordy. BBC, NPR, sometimes Guardian, NYT, and other news sources follow in approximately that order.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

The BBC, AP, and Reuters are a good place to start.

I like Erin in the Morning, Propublica, and Bellingcat as well, but they require additional work to parse sometimes.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Personally I love PBS/NPR (both National and my local station; support your local station!), The Verge, TWiT/This Week in Tech, Daily Tech News Show, Democracy Now!, C4 News, and Web3 is Going Great.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

I do my local national public radio every day. Great local coverage and balanced fact driven national coverage. I have donated to them for a decade now. No regrets

[-] isaaclw@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine. Also the majority report.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Not a news source, but commentary. I watch/listen to breaking points https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints

they cite drop site news frequently https://www.dropsitenews.com/

and I read Ken Klippenstein https://www.kenklippenstein.com/

[-] TxTechnician@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I got a local loud mouth who listens to Infowars

I just assume the opposite of what he says is true. So far it's working

[-] Fizz 5 points 2 years ago

Associated Press is great for world news. They're a bit slow but you get less mistakes.

For important news like Linux news, destination Linux, brodie Robinson and the Linux experiment are my goto.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 2 years ago

less mistakes

oh the dross other outlets push aren't mistakes ...

[-] Fizz 2 points 2 years ago

What does dross mean?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 2 years ago

waste, garbage, trash, The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation, worthless

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You get fewer mistakes

I'm sorry, the irony was too much to ignore

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

BBC Radio 4's hourly news bulletin just before the Archers. That and BBC News headline notifications.

[-] zerozaku@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I don't follow news. If it's big enough, it will reach me some or the other way.

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

https://text.npr.org/

[-] crozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Judd Legum, actual journalist who does the legwork.

[-] macattack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I used to be a Google News junkie, but I stopped using their products. Now, I have a more streamlined view via these two: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.boringreport.org/app

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 2 years ago

@fuzzy_feeling too many of them tbh. I also gotta do some cleanup at some point:
removed/7GXfY6Sn

There's plenty more in my Feedly account, some duplicates, cannot catch them all. At this point, I returned to getting what's currently in the spotlight.

[-] FallopianSphincter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I''m a big fan of Some More News on YouTube.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

the comment section

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Of Facebook

[-] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Just the memes, and then I hear someone mention some atrocity and I understand the half of them :p

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

PBS Newshour

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 2 years ago

I have 306 RSS sources soooo you're gonna have to be more specific :)

[-] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Curious what they are and how you manage the incoming?

I have been trying to curate my list and they're all very chatty. I end up struggling to stay on top of it even just dismissing articles I won't read, let alone reading a significant percentage.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

I organize them into lists and start with the most relevant ones. Use filters to remove spam as best I can. Then skim the titles. Not every publication is pushing 30 articles/day. I won't claim to read all of them.