Android @lemdro.id packetloss @lemmy.world 1y ago

Google News Alternatives

Hello,

Looking for recommendations for Google News alternatives. I'm getting frustrated with the feed getting populated with sources, articles, or subjects I'm not interested in. Spend more time filtering out the crap I don't care about than actually looking at articles.

I don't mind having suggestions on my feed, but Google's algorithm is way off for me. I'm interested in tech, PC hardware, and video games mostly. But I'm getting recommendations for wrestling, a LOT of politics, and weird "reality tv" show news.

Kinda done with it now.

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I'm a big fan of Ground News for general news. Their whole goal is to make the bias of the various news sources more transparent to you the reader.
- Allsides.com also does something like that. Not sure which is ultimately more accurate in their rating though.
  
  https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
- It really is good at labeling bias. What is really interesting is seeing what type of news just isn't even reported by one side.
- That's really neat. I don't know how accurate their ratings are (and it's weird to see the BBC labeled as "government") but it's a cool idea.
- I've been using Ground news a bit for a while, but have really come to rely on it since Rexxit as I had been using various subreddits for news aggregation.
  
  I finally started paying for the basic subscription a few days ago... it's certainly worth 83 cents a month.
  
  Rexxit
  
  At least call it Rexit, damn
  
  Why does everything have to be a subscription. I miss the days of paying for an app once.
It never works. I've indicated that I don't want any royal news for as long as I've had Google news. It still populates my feed with garbage
Try Hacker News, it's similar to Reddit/Lemmy (upvotes, downvotes, recursive comments), except more focused on tech news and random interesting articles. You can either read it at https://news.ycombinator.com or use a native client like the ones listed here: https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news
Artifact
I switched recently to Microsoft alternative Microsoft Start and found it better than Google News.
A lot of these suggestions are not really alternatives to Google News, as such. That is, OP is asking for something that does better recommendations of content. You could hypothetically, I guess, use RSS feeds as backends for source material, and expose a user-specific derived RSS feed of recommendations, but recommending content is not really what an RSS reader does.

Something directly analogous to Google News would index sites, build a profile on you, and then recommend content that you want to see.
I used Feedly before defaulting to reddit as sites slowly collapsed RSS functionally.

Curious to know as well, but most of the time I see a couple sites mentioned that I haven't been impressed with their ability to sift the trade mags and studies I was in it for.
You can use a service like Feedly & Inoreader. They both have Android apps and you can use their web app for desktop.

I personally self host FreshRSS & RSS-Bridge via docker and sync with Fluent Reader (Linux), FeedMe (Android), and Read You (Android). Though self hosting isn't for everyone.
I like nunti https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.nunti/
For me, I use RSS (Feeder is my current fave on Android), Techmeme, Memeorandum, Ground News, Artifact, and News as Facts.

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