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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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busy at work as usual. anyways go to your local protest and join your local political organization

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[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 8 points 6 days ago

I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be.

This is such a, well, simple thing people seem to have forgotten still exists. Pair it with Firefox, uBO and NoScript, and it's like reading a paper from 20 years ago, except just shit you might be interested in.

[-] caramel_jalapeno@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

Any good links you know of that explain how to get started? I've tried looking for this type of info a couple times but never seem to have much luck finding a tutorial.

[-] its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago

Can you give me a breakdown or a guide you'd recommend for doing this? I used to be an RSS junky years ago, but my skills atrophied. It sounds lovely and a fun distraction project for me.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 points 5 days ago

I use Feedly these days. The search function is pretty good for if you don't have a direct feed link. Some pubs do not put out feeds, but for everything else, there's MasterCard.

Grouping feeds into categories is dead simple. There are some other features I don't use, so I can't speak to overall how it compares to other RSS aggregators. I don't need a sprinkling of AI with my morning paper.

[-] melp@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago

Exactly. And even if there isn't an RSS available some of the paid RSS servers will webscrape for you. I have been building my own webscraping code but it works. I just decided I need to put some distance between myself and the abusive way we are presented news these days.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago

Congratulations for discovering the reason I'm here. News has become a toxic space I felt a need to fix somewhere ... it's the First Amendment, and everyone's worried about guns. And let's not get started on the 14th.

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