Submitted 3 weeks ago by CuriousSkeptic42@lemy.lol to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Does anyone know FLOSS replacements for Ground News?
I’ve seen some good things Ground News does.
Like seeing the same story under different media outlets and seeing representation of a story across the political spectrum.
I currently use RSS feed readers, I think something like what Ground is, would help organize my media at least.
This is the website: web.ground.news
Hi, I want to warn you about services claiming to sell “unbiased” advice : Ground news is biased, their alignment of left and right is subjective as all politics is.
Not just that, but their definition of “left” often veers into the downright ludicrous. Sometimes i think the whole thing is just another psyop to move the Overton window ever farther right.
Yeah, as a french person it still shock me that some US are considered left leaning when they are just billionaires mouth pieces.
They do make it possible to adjust the ratings on your own account for the ones you disagree on
Purity test on Lemmy? Not left enough? Mild shock!
Yeah, the definitions are actually more about alignment with the US political parties rather than left or right. And since both parties are demonstrably right of center, just to different degrees, the bias meter should only be used to determine which political party’s sponsors likely biased the article.
For example, an article saying climate change is not human caused and presenting debunked evidence will be ranked mostly center and second mostly right. But an article calling for incentives to reduce use of fossils fuels will be ranked mostly left. That’s mostly center if anything. An article calling for the government to explicitly force companies to stop using fossil fuels would be mostly left and center. One further advocating for the government to take over energy companies that don’t comply and make energy production public would be mostly left. Just presenting scientific evidence and refusing to give a voice to debunked “alternative facts” is not a leftist position, it’s a centrist one at best and should be the baseline.
Ground News isn’t software.
That's like asking for a FLOSS Disney+ alternative.
That’s just called jellyfin
i use a custom n8n routine to gather and vet news. im just trading one ai for one I make the mistakes with
Could you share your flow for that? Its sounds awesome
I know Google sucks, and it’s not foss obviously, but I generally use news.google.com to view numerous takes on each story by dozens of outlets
I like it up until they started allowing paywall websites.
You can have it stop serving links from specific sites (I’ve only done it for Fox News)
This isn’t FOSS but it makes a case for making an effort to do good www.allsides.com/about
You could always group your feeds. I have mine grouped based on topic (news, science, technology, etc.) but I guess you could always group them based on political spectrum.
Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ground news is a service, if you like it, pay for it.
That kind of stuff is not where FOSS excels
pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 3 weeks ago
I could see an alternative where the community curates and assigns the political learnings.
But yeah, otherwise it is just a service.
int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
that’s what lemmy does, with a slight bias towards communism…
CuriousSkeptic42@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Interesting. But even something that groups the same story under all the outlets would be great.
So you can see different coverage of the same story. Of course it would be dynamic. You just add all the RSS feeds you want.
Transformers models may be useful for that clustering task, if you have a ground truth and reasonable scaffold.
Btw I don’t use Ground news, just like some of the features sponsors such as Youtubers talk about. I think getting news from a centralised service is dangerous principally, especially if proprietary/SaSS.
But that’s just my view, I am a software engineer in a junior role.
Perhaps someone may have done a small project for this.
Interested if anyone knows good FLOSS solutions to this problem of multiple outlets reporting same story. (Duplication).