Anyone use or know of a good news aggregator app or website that can pull stuff globally and has a live update headline feed?

  • Trimatrix@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    You basically just described what an RSS feed is. Get a client (I use readkit) and start adding websites to your feed. If you are feeling up to it. self hosting freshRSS and having it sync your feeds to your client is also an option.

      • Trimatrix@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        Depends what your into. Hackernews is always a good feed to add, ars technica, your local news station, your local news paper, I got an rss-bridge running that posts to my feed when apps update with their change log, when a project on github has a news release, when one of my favorite artists releases music on apple music. Institute for the Study of War is also a decent unique feed if you want to read up on strictly tactical updates on ongoing conflicts.

        Honestly, thats the beauty of RSS feeds. They are everywhere, I got feeds aggregating memes, and webcomics. You can run a bridge that prowls instagram using your account and generate a post in your feed when your friend posts something. Literally RSS is all about turning the internet you use into your own personal feed without the BS algorithms crammed down your throat. Someone creates a post, and your feed gets sorted by time posted. Easy as that.

        I use Lemmy really for the social interaction. Something which RSS doesn’t have.

        • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          Hey thanks for that. I do like hackernews and ars technica. And I already selfhost a bunch of other stuff. So I guess I found what I’m going to setup next. In the past whenever I’ve looked into RSS I’ve found some sites go out of their way to try to stop it.

          For example here’s a site I’d like to get the feed for featured reviews: https://rateyourmusic.com/

          Short of scraping it with python beautiful soup I don’t see an easy way to get the feed.

          • Trimatrix@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 days ago

            Yeah, they got cloudflare running on their domain so even a bridge won’t help for that specific site. Depending on what you are using it for you can find alternatives with more RSS friendly sites. RSS-Bridge can track music releases through apple music even if you don’t use apple music. I am pretty sure you can find alternative sites for other types of media releases.

            I find this the best place to find RSS feeds that just work with out bridges:

            RSS List

  • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    RSS Feeds - i use “Read You” for Android:

    I’m now in the process of still adding all the feeds from different sites.

    Normally these readers can export your feed list as a .opml file, which can be imported by other readers. So you’ll actually have to make the effort of collecting your favorite RSS Feeds only once.