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?
SN home page for me
Yes! And it keeps getting better.
I'm gonna solve it for you, hopefully.
Finally!
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.
This sounds very much like what I am looking for. I'll check it out.
I use SN on Brave. It's better than Chrome.
Lol same!!!
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
Those were innocent days.
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.
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.
That is something I am going to definitely check out.
I keep a list of my favorite news outlets bookmarked, and I regularly check them for the most recent updates.
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.
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.
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.
It sounds like you have an elaborate set up!
At this point it's almost on autopilot, so I can browse my news before caffeine's even kicked in!
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.
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.
I remember that!
Or you make something work, and in a few months time it becomes obsolete.
Yes. That too.
Thats the problem I always seem to come across.
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.
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.
*shameless, not selfless. lol
I use and run a hosted instance of the open source tt-rss aggregator at :-
https://www.ttrss.info
If anyone wants to give it a try then contact me.
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.
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
SN and CommaFeed
https://www.commafeed.com/#/welcome
Since I'm a more auditory person anyway, I generally wait for stories to make it to the independent media people that I like.
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.
RSS feeds with inoreader.com
There are many good news aggregator sites and methods you can use to find news easily.
Here are some popular options:
1.
Google News: This site collects news from many sources.
You can customize it to see topics you like.
2.
Feedly: This is an app where you can follow your favorite news sites and blogs in one place.
It helps you see new articles quickly.
3.
Flipboard: This app lets you create your own magazine with articles from different topics.
You can choose what you want to read.
4.
Pocket: While it's mainly for saving articles to read later, you can discover popular articles in the app that others have saved.
5.
RSS Feeds: Many news websites have RSS feeds.
You can use an RSS reader to collect news from your favorite sites in one feed.
6.
Social Media: Platforms like Twitter and Facebook often have news updates.
You can follow news organizations or hashtags to stay informed.
7.
Newsletter Subscriptions: Many news websites offer free newsletters.
You can subscribe to get news directly in your email.