I’m slowly trying to degooglefy my life, and Google news is one of the first sites I check when I log in in the morning.

What news aggregators do you use? My ideal one would be able to give local news when given a location, and allow some sort of tuning of source priority (even if that’s just blocking certain sites from the aggregate).

I’m also not opposed to rolling my own, but I’m not sure how I’d start with a project like that.

    • WheeljackOP
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      4 years ago

      I grabbed newsboat and have been adding RSS feeds to it. I dig that it’s very straightforward, no cruft, text config files, and as a bonus I was able to set it up with Vi-style keybindings.

      The only thing it doesn’t do, and I don’t know that it -could- is the actual aggregation part. I think that would need some form of AI to group similar posts.

      Though, I wonder if something could be set up to go through all posts in the feeds that are less than a certain age and do a keyword count. Even if it was just the top X words by count (excluding common words), that would give some sense of what the trending topics are… hrrmmmmm…