I have struggled with this issue since the beginning of the internet. I have never found the right method for discovering and organizing written content online.
Many years ago I used Yahoo's configurable home page, and that worked well for a while. I have also tried just about every RSS feed reader in existence, Pocket, Flipboard, and others I am sure I am forgetting. The issue is either too much or too little. RSS feeds just throw too much at me, because I wind up subscribing to too many sources, and the more curated methods don't seem to cast a wide enough net.
I'm wondering what stackers here use?
this territory is moderated
SN home page for me
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Yes! And it keeps getting better.
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Ground News doesn't do their own reporting but show an overview what right wing and left wing media reports. What words both sides use, where one side has a blindspot etc.
Even if you consider yourself on either of these 2 sides (I personally do not) this is still a valuable perspective on what/how the "other side" thinks.
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I've only checked them out a few times. Is the main value balancing left/right, because I feel like there's a lot that both sides like to ignore?
It becomes really difficult because obviously someone has to be covering a story for it to register as news in the first place.
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That is something I am going to definitely check out.
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I'm gonna solve it for you, hopefully.
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Finally!
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I normally use Feedly for news aggregation. But I recently got an invite code for https://github.com/RSSNext/Follow and I barely look at Feedly now.
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64 sats \ 5 replies \ @Cje95 12 Sep
On man I remember using Flipboard! Is it still around? I remember it seemingly starting to die out...
I use Brave Browsers Brave News and really like it. You can have it pull from certain site, topic areas, etc. much like Google News but maintains your privacy unlike Google News. It isn't perfect but it is the best I have found so far.
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This sounds very much like what I am looking for. I'll check it out.
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I use SN on Brave. It's better than Chrome.
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Lol same!!!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 12 Sep
Years ago, before I knew all about data privacy and what big tech was doing to us, I used and loved Google News. Once I found out it killed the idea of me using it except at work on my work desktop since its a government computer so I know I wont have any privacy! This is the best I found plus scrolling through it you can earn BAT which even though I don't think it will ever be worth the ~$0.50 to a $1 it once was but free money is free money so why not lol
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Those were innocent days.
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Selfless plug here. At the Bitcoin Breakdown newsletter we funnel and filter hundreds of sources into categorized Bitcoin-only RSS feeds to curate the signal from the noise twice every week. Check out the recent issue here.
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*shameless, not selfless. lol
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I use and run a hosted instance of the open source tt-rss aggregator at :-
If anyone wants to give it a try then contact me.
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I use rss with inoreader, but I also have a browser folder of twenty tabs with various sites (from BBC to Decrypt to Slashdot), and every morning, I open all tabs (after Chrome yells at me), then skim each one as I'm having my coffee, opening stuff I want to read more about in new tabs. It gives me an overview of stuff going on in the world on top of what I get from my feed and forums.
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It sounds like you have an elaborate set up!
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At this point it's almost on autopilot, so I can browse my news before caffeine's even kicked in!
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I don't seek the news, I allow it to find me. Usually on twitter, occasionally on SN. Hopefully eventually only on Nostr and SN.
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engagement is a good pathway to curation; if someone (on this site for example) says something useful you could respond and ask where they they learnt that insight from.
if you're in luck, they may point you to a useful resource.
if not, they may respond with that "I made it up" meme - but at least it will make you smile
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Since I'm a more auditory person anyway, I generally wait for stories to make it to the independent media people that I like.
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Or you make something work, and in a few months time it becomes obsolete.
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Yes. That too.
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Thats the problem I always seem to come across.
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I read whatever I am interested in the moment.
For example some times I am more interested in the financial markets so I read the central banks websites, and things like that.
But other times I couldn't care less about finance, so I read about other things that are happening.
Now, news sites usually cover whatever is in the interest of whoever is controlling them. I don't care about that.
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RSS feeds with inoreader.com
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I keep a list of my favorite news outlets bookmarked, and I regularly check them for the most recent updates.
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I have tried this method. It's pretty good, but then my list of bookmarks gets too long, and I feel like I don't have time to delve into each site. Then I feel like I'm missing too much.
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Been there! I've put them in my 'must-watch' order, but if time's short, I'm cool with it. You can't possibly see it all.
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I love the idea of RSS, but I've blamed the readers for not helping here. Maybe it's not the readers after all. Thanks for your perspective. It'll help me to rethink this. I'm bad about not opening up the reader and then I have tons of stuff to paw through.
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Exactly. In the early days Yahoo had this homepage with widgets. Each had its own rectangular box on the page. I would populate the page layout with my favorite news sources. The box would contain five or six headlines from each source. That worked really well for me. I could glance around the page and pick out the headlines that grabbed me. Then I could go deeper into each publication if I felt like it.
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I remember that!
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.