[email protected] - Mother Jones
[email protected] - Pro Publica
[email protected] - Good Politics / Political Law Blog
[email protected] - The Drudge Report (I know! I'm as shocked as anybody. With a good-sized blacklist of crap sources in place, it's actually pretty informative)

[–] horse_battery_staple 17 points 3 days ago

Rss is the way

[–] JubilantJaguar 11 points 3 days ago

Using this thing right here as an RSS reader! TIL.

[email protected] - Mongabay

An excellent source that I'm ashamed I only discovered recently. Consistently first-rate independent journalism on literally the most important subjects there are. Should be better known. Read. Donate.

Great other choices too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

ground news

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wow you can use Lemmy as an RSS feed? Will these posts overpower local stuff though?

Hopefully me clicking on these won't mean the all view on my instance is now completely overtaken by this stuff...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Depends on exactly which ones you subscribe to. I sub'd to the Guardian and was immediately overwhelmed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think it should. "Active" sort should mostly only show the ones that have some user engagement to them, and "Scaled" sort should only show ones that are either from a few minutes ago, or have a handful of upvotes to them, or from sources that very rarely post. "Scaled" is honestly pretty good, IDK why it is not the default.

Also, I make an effort not add feeds to it willy-nilly and to blacklist ones that tend to post spam or other stupid content. Some admins will remove everything from rss.ponder.cat from their front page feed, also, which makes sense to me.

I was a little bit surprised to see that only a few of them are federated to slrpnk right now. These are already subscribed to from slrpnk, though, so you can check them out without a trace of guilt:

It's honestly a very pleasingly slrpnk-vibe collection of communities. 😃

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah Mongabay is on the list thanks to me, and I'll have to check out the others.

I looked at a few sorting mechanisms and it does seem to be OK with the exception of new and scaled. Scaled in particular had a lot of posts from Mongabay, but maybe this is just because it was recently federated for the first time? I'll check back and see if it subsides after a little while. I hope it does because while I don't really use the all view, I know some people who do are very bothered by these types of frequent bot posts, including one of our admins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hm.. oh, I got it. Yeah, forget what I said about "Scaled."

And yeah, I'm bothered by frequent bot posts. I just recently unsubscribed from a bunch of fedia.io stuff because of it. I tried to be pretty selective about what feeds to add, refused a couple of requests for some ones, added spam filters for sources that like to sprinkle advertising into their articles, that kind of stuff. But I do agree, having anything that's automated blasting into the feeds is probably a thing to be minimized unless people have specifically opted in to it. If there is something I can do from my end to make it less that way let me know, I've done pretty much all I could think of to make it less obnoxious.

Programming.dev, I know, is one of the places that removed rss.ponder.cat from their "All" feed for that reason, so you still have the option to subscribe, but it defaults to hidden. I don't know how to do that but if the admins want to do it, they could ask, I'm sure it's pretty simple.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh that's an interesting idea. Seems like it would be the ideal solution if it's not overly difficult to implement. @[email protected] FYI, not sure if this is something that you'd like to investigate. We're discussing this RSS feed feature which seems quite useful but might create problems for the all view. If there is a similar option for the various Lemmit bots, it might solve that problem as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm, not sure how they did it. To my knowledge that is only an upcoming feature although now that I think about it I somewhat remember that it was already partially available in the current release backend but not exposed in the UI or so 🤔

Edit: indeed: https://mv-gh.github.io/lemmy_openapi_spec/#tag/Admin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Cool so it is possible. Seems like a good solution to the problem of automated communities that put out a lot of posts.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 5 points 2 days ago

You're my hero.

Brb setting up RSS feeds on every device I've got