what are your news sources?
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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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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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Oh that's an interesting idea. Seems like it would be the ideal solution if it's not overly difficult to implement.
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the comment section
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You're my hero.
Brb setting up RSS feeds on every device I've got
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You get fewer mistakes
I'm sorry, the irony was too much to ignore
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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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I have 306 RSS sources soooo you're gonna have to be more specific
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Depends on exactly which ones you subscribe to. I sub'd to the Guardian and was immediately overwhelmed.
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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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These days I try to avoid the news.
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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/
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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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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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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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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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Lemmy and the google news feed. Sometimes my family members.
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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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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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Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine.
Also the majority report.
