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: https://web.ground.news/

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[–] 158 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Ground news is a service, if you like it, pay for it.

That kind of stuff is not where FOSS excels

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I could see an alternative where the community curates and assigns the political learnings.

    But yeah, otherwise it is just a service.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    that's what lemmy does, with a slight bias towards communism...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It's more socialism than communism. But ofcourse depends on which side of lemmy you are on.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I see a lot of Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism. but people here are also more socialist in general.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Socialiam is just people lying about communist tendencies because from each according to their ability to each accorsing to their contribution is foolish, as their output from capability is the contribution. To say otherwise is just more convoluted communism because you are juat changing the value metric on what their need is in the communist base ideaology of from each according to their ability to each according to their need.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Can't understand this, you'll have to simplify.

    If you mean to say socialism is communism lite. Sure, that's exactly what it is. That's a good transitory model.

    Direct transition is susceptible to hijacking by fascists.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    There is no fundamental difference between socialism and communism. One says you get what you need, one says you get something based on what you contribute but need and contribute are not defined by the person they are defined by some external group based on nothing other than their feelings. It's just word games masking the underlying reality that one group is butt hurt about what some other group was able to get for their input and the first group wants to confiscate that output for themselves. Both groups concentrate power in government, both groups are very susceptible to being taken over by a strong man dictator, both don't end in utopia, they end in suffering under some dictator. Socialists are just communists trying to soften the language around what they are butt hurt about to make it more palatable in the hopes enough people fall for that stupidity that they can implement their confiscation plan to reach their utopia (which never, ever happens. It devolves into dictatorship and suffering or is in the process of doing that). Fascists are just another brand of utopian dictator that ends in suffering (their rhetoric seems to be built around disgust rather than envy but other than that it's a train to the same gulag).

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You should make one. It could be fun to make.

    Since how you define something as being one political leaning over another is subjective (mostly), You could allow community to label the outlets and let it reflect current views and use feddy protocol, so you can have multiple aggregators that have different labels.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's like asking for a FLOSS Disney+ alternative.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    They do make it possible to adjust the ratings on your own account for the ones you disagree on. It doesn't affect the newsletters, but I find those to be too american-specific anyway

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Ground News isn't software.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This isn't FOSS but it makes a case for making an effort to do good https://www.allsides.com/about

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I know Google sucks, and it's not foss obviously, but I generally just use news.google.com to view numerous takes on each story by dozens of outlets. Really helps figure out what is actually happening

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