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Written by fuzzy_feeling on 2025-01-27 at 21:17

what are your news sources?

https://programming.dev/post/24616577

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Descendants

Written by Fizz@lemmy.nz on 2025-01-27 at 21:39

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.

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Written by metaStatic on 2025-01-27 at 21:56

less mistakes

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

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Written by Fizz@lemmy.nz on 2025-01-27 at 21:59

What does dross mean?

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Written by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 2025-01-27 at 22:13

I haven’t noticed the AP being that slow in comparison to other outlets IMHO

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Written by A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 23:55

You get fewer mistakes

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

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Written by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 2025-01-27 at 21:44

World news:

Climate / environment:

US News:

Tech and tech politics:

US Politics:

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Written by horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 22:01

Rss is the way

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Written by JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 22:19

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.

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Written by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 2025-01-27 at 22:42

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…

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Written by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 2025-01-27 at 22:51

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 with a trace of guilt:

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

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Written by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 2025-01-27 at 23:23

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.

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Written by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 2025-01-27 at 23:31

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.

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Written by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 2025-01-27 at 23:37

Oh that’s an interesting idea. Seems like it would be the ideal solution if it’s not overly difficult for us.

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Written by poVoq on 2025-01-28 at 00:05

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 🤔

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Written by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 2025-01-28 at 02:07

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

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Written by Ulrich on 2025-01-28 at 00:28

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

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Written by A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 23:49

You’re my hero.

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

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Written by yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 2025-01-28 at 19:22

ground news

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Written by cm0002@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 21:45

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?

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Written by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 2025-01-27 at 21:58

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

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

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Written by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 2025-01-27 at 22:47

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 capitalists 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.

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Written by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 2025-01-27 at 22:58

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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Written by PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 20:50

It helps that their business model doesn’t rely on ads or user tracking, and instead relies on subscriptions from other news businesses. This obviously isn’t perfect as it requires those other businesses to exist and be profitable, but it’s a helpful layer of insulation.

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Written by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 2025-01-27 at 22:13

I like AP News a lil better than Reuters. Axios and NBC News ain’t bad either if you’re okay with using sites that skew a lil farther to the left.

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Written by LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 22:33

Yeah, corporate media is definitely “the left.” 🙄

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Written by Flax on 2025-01-27 at 21:51

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

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Written by toiletobserver on 2025-01-27 at 22:02

text.npr.org

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Written by IninewCrow on 2025-01-27 at 22:08

Publically owned or controlled (or at least majority owned and controlled) news services in major countries

CBC - in Canada (where I’m from)

PBS - in the US

ABC - Australia

BBC - in the UK

France 24 - in France

NHK - in Japan

Although there are criticisms for each, at the very least, they give a good guidance to relevant straight forward news without too much spin.

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Written by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 2025-01-27 at 22:13

What about NPR in the US as well

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Written by IninewCrow on 2025-01-27 at 22:14

Thanks for the reminder … added!

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Written by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 2025-01-27 at 22:12

I’ve got a MASSIVE fricking OPML file I grab my news from and punch into various apps and sites like Feedly. I grab basically as many feeds as I can, except those that typically paywall their sites (like WaPo, NYT and WSJ)

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Written by macattack@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 22:37

I used to be a Google News junkie, but I stopped using their products. Now, I have a more streamlined view via these two:

www.newsminimalist.com

www.boringreport.org/app

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Written by Montagge@lemmy.zip on 2025-01-27 at 22:51

PBS Newshour

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Written by Zachariah@lemmy.world on 2025-01-27 at 23:46

the comment section

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Written by Avid Amoeba on 2025-01-28 at 05:16

Of Facebook

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Written by Ulrich on 2025-01-28 at 00:27

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

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Written by fuzzzerd@programming.dev on 2025-01-28 at 20:00

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.

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Written by Ulrich on 2025-01-28 at 20:06

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.

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Written by TxTechnician@lemmy.ml on 2025-01-28 at 00:34

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

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Written by NickwithaC on 2025-01-28 at 01:01

These days I try to avoid the news.

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Written by robocall@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 01:47

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

they cite drop site news frequently www.dropsitenews.com

and I read Ken Klippenstein www.kenklippenstein.com

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Written by katy ✨ on 2025-01-28 at 01:59

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.

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Written by dumples@midwest.social on 2025-01-28 at 02:19

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

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Written by wowbaggerip@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 02:40

Roca News @ridethenews is my go to but I’ve tuned most things out at this point to try and stay sane.

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Written by Feathercrown@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 02:53

Lemmy and the google news feed. Sometimes my family members.

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Written by RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 03:10

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

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Written by scoobford@lemmy.zip on 2025-01-28 at 03:30

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.

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Written by isaaclw@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 03:49

Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine.

Also the majority report.

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Written by bigboismith@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 08:35

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.

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Written by Cătă on 2025-01-28 at 20:27

@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

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Written by zerozaku on 2025-01-28 at 13:14

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

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Written by Cătă on 2025-01-28 at 20:38

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

postimg.cc/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.

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Written by Psythik@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 20:51

Lemmy and Imgur. Before that it was reddit. And before that, digg.

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Written by FallopianSphincter@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 21:23

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

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Written by crozilla@lemmy.world on 2025-01-28 at 22:37

Judd Legum, actual journalist who does the legwork.

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Written by fmstrat on 2025-01-30 at 12:37

The Guardian is not owned by a billionaire, but by a trust that was made to preserve it’s integrity. So them.

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Written by haui on 2025-02-02 at 16:09

Exclusively independent media (404 and newly the taz in germany). Besides that bush drums of the fedi (mastodon and lemmy, memes).

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