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what are your news sources?

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    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:

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    It's honestly a very pleasingly slrpnk-vibe collection of communities. πŸ˜ƒ

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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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      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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        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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            World news:

            • [email protected] - The Guardian
            • [email protected] - Al Jazeera

            Climate / environment:

            • [email protected] - Inside Climate News
            • [email protected] - Mongabay
            • [email protected] - Grist
            • [email protected] - Planetizen

            US News:

            • [email protected] - The Guardian US
            • [email protected] - BBC US

            Tech and tech politics:

            • [email protected] - Ars Technica
            • [email protected] - 404 Media
            • [email protected] - The Register
            • [email protected] - Techdirt

            US Politics:

            • [email protected] - Mother Jones
            • [email protected] - Pro Publica
            • [email protected] - Good Politics / Political Law Blog
            • [email protected] - 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)
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            You're my hero.

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

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            • fizz@lemmy.nzF [email protected]

              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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              You get fewer mistakes

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

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              • libertylizard@slrpnk.netL [email protected]

                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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                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 πŸ€”

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                  I have 306 RSS sources soooo you're gonna have to be more specific πŸ™‚

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                  • libertylizard@slrpnk.netL [email protected]

                    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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                    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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                              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 πŸ€”

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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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                                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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                                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.

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