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.
Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?
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#53The 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 prefer the river view for each, similar to hckrnews.com
https://www.techmeme.com/river
https://www.mediagazer.com/river
they also run one just about baseball - https://www.ballbug.com/
the world would be a better place if someone wrote a platform to make your own platforms of these. i imagine a community, like a subreddit, would have a set of rss feeds etc that it follows, a group of people "swipe left or right" on the stories, and the winners move up the page. the difference from other platforms being that stories dont get direct submitted, and that the editorial boards ranking the stories stay fairly small and specialized.
also shoutouts to https://redef.com http://www.aldaily.com https://longform.org https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?
#54I made https://masskomm.com . It's a simple news aggregator for some of the main publishers I follow especially from around Asia.
Nice work, I like the design too.
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#55I run Pine.blog, a niche feed reader and blogging app and I’d love for it to get more attention:
It’s got more of a Twitter-like feel (timelines instead of folders) and a human curated directory of blogs and feeds to follow. If you’ve ever used Tweetbot, that’s what I’m going for.
Its available on the web or on iOS. And there’s a premium tier if you want more advanced features (and unlimited access to the API).
A major release is in the works that will add the ability to start a blog from Pine.blog so that you can quickly and easily contribute back to the open web on your own site. Right now you can post to a Wordpress blog if you have one.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s the political slant? I’m working my way down the memorandum front page articles and getting a very distinctly right wing vibe. Is that the norm, or just a momentary trend?
I literally have no idea how you're getting that. They play it pretty straight down the middle.
It seems to me to be all-Trump, all the time.
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#57I built a news app:
https://gopulse.io/
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#58The 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. D…
This looks great! Have you considered adding an RSS feed for it?
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#59Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I've found personalized start pages (eg https://start.me/ https://www.protopage.com/ ) with RSS and other feeds from a wide variety of news sources to be the best fit for my purpose. This includes a feed for HN and other aggregators.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. D…
This looks great! Have you considered adding an RSS feed for it?
No, it designed for email so there's not a public web site for the news itself but it wouldn't be too difficult to make. As I mentioned, however, this is a moribund service :)