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Best news aggregator? Where do you get your news?

I used to use flipboard, then once I got hooked on Reddit I got lazy and just started getting all my news from there.

Since this place is still getting its start thought I might go back to one to supplement me. Where you guys get your news?

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  • RSS never fails me.

    • Same. Also using IFTTT and Pocket to automatically aggregate my own feed from sources I enjoy to curate my own feed to my Kobo reader.

      Feels snazzy to read the news in e-ink so that my OLED work/play world and news world are separate.

    • And when, for some reason, there isn't an RSS feed given by the website, check RSS-Bridge and see if it has the site you want ;)

      (and if it doesn't, if you know PHP, consider contributing with your own bridge)

      • Wow! I've been a heavy RSS user forever, and this is the first I've heard of RSS-Bridge -- thanks for this!

    • The decline (and perhaps fall) of reddit put me in the position of needing an Android RSS client/newsreader app for the first time. I want to say I used to use the functionality built into Firefox? Is that right? Anyway, for Android I've been using Inoreader. Seems to work ok. Mostly use it for the AP news RSS feed.

  • I generally avoid news aggregators because I see them as an extra layer of filter between news publishers and me. I just regularly follow a number of national and international publications as a habit.

    • Yea I'm trying to get away from the political bias and echo chambering a singular news source gives you, but at same time like aggregators for being time efficient. That ground.news another person shouted out actually seems really interesting and to fit the bill. It gives you multiple viewpoints of each trending news story and labels what bias they are leaning.

      • But they will still get to decide which news stories should be given prominence and if they are your only source, you will never know if they omit some less 'trendy' but important story. News publications do this as well, but if you follow enough of them with varying editorial leanings, it kind of fixes that issue. You could set up a RSS feed aggregator to achieve this as well I guess.

  • I use RSS feeds (via Newsblur) for most of the news, and Twitter because I still follow too many journos there.

    • I also use NewsBlur as my backend organizational tool and catelog, then the Unread app on ios as my frontend reader because it's so simple and nice to look at.

  • I generally just listen to public broadcast radio, then follow up any stories that interest me with an internet search to get a general idea of the story and weed out the biases.

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