in and out of fediverse.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

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

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    46·
    3 days ago

    World news:

    Climate / environment:

    US News:

    Tech and tech politics:

    US Politics:

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Using this thing right here as an RSS reader! TIL.

      [email protected] - 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.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      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…

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

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

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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 without a trace of guilt:

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

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          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.

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              Oh that’s an interesting idea. Seems like it would be the ideal solution if it’s not overly difficult to implement. @[email protected] FYI, not sure if this is something that you’d like to investigate. We’re discussing this RSS feed feature which seems quite useful but might create problems for the all view. If there is a similar option for the various Lemmit bots, it might solve that problem as well.

  • bigboismith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    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?

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        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 investors 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.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          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.

      • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

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

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    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
    NPR - in the US
    ABC - Australia
    BBC - in the UK
    France 24 - in France
    NHK - in Japan
    DW - in Germany

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

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

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

  • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      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