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Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by martin_a »

I set up my own FreshRSS instance and am adding more and more feeds to it. I found that suitable to give me a broad overview over news etc. But you will have to look for sources on your own, that's maybe a problem. Also less and less sites are using RSS/Atom.

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by smacktoward »

The Memeorandum family of products have been the foundation of my media diet for more than a decade now:

Memeorandum (general news): https://www.memeorandum.com/

Techmeme (tech news): https://www.techmeme.com/

Mediagazer (media sector news): https://www.mediagazer.com/

I’m constantly amazed at how many people have never heard of them. To me, they are indispensable.

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by jyu »

I don't know any better way than using an RSS feed and adding unknowing curators for the domains of interest. Then you add and remove curators as you see fit. Journalists, commenters, niche forums, twitter, bloggers can all be added with some one time modifications.

If you like one curator's thoughts on subject X, they might introduce you to interesting thoughts on subject Y or Z.

Another interesting trick I haven't heard other people using is to send the media firehose to a folder, then only checking news that is 4+ weeks old. Aging the stories allows you to sift through puff pieces vs ones that have staying power and remain important.

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by mgreg »

smacktoward wrote: post #13

The Memeorandum family of products have been the foundation of my media diet for more than a decade now: Memeorandum (general news): https://www.memeorandum.com/ Techmeme (tech news): https://www.techmeme.com/ Mediagazer (media sector news): https://www.mediagazer.com/ I’m constantly amazed at how many people have never heard of them. To me, they are indispensable.

I'd second Techmeme for tech news aggregation; great site and now with a newsletter too.

I actually built a general news aggregation newsletter inspired by Techmeme too (http://enclude.com) which uses ML to group the leading stories of the day together with the highest quality ones highlighted. My hope was to break people out of their filter bubble by exposing them to high quality coverage on the news of the day.

Did it as a daily email because I wanted it to be pushed to me and I wanted it to be limited meaning once you read it you're done. No need to suck up more time.

I've had no time to work on it and its in a state of disrepair but if anyone is interested in teaming up on it let me know.

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