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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.
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.
Why does everything have to be a subscription. I miss the days of paying for an app once.
You're not paying for the app... it's the service. I use it mostly from the desktop browser.
And you can get the basic functionality for free.
Rexxit
At least call it Rexit, damn
You called?
Two ds: two xs.
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.
Artifact
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
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.
Artifact is an interesting app that learns from your viewing history. It's made by the creators of Instagram, and it can do AI summaries of articles. There's also the ability to have discussions with others, but that can be ignored.
Artifact is an interesting app that learns from your viewing history.
Oooh....
Itβs made by the creators of Instagram
Ah, maybe not then.
But the creators of Instagram before selling to Facebook
Not really better.
For me, I use RSS (Feeder is my current fave on Android), Techmeme, Memeorandum, Ground News, Artifact, and News as Facts.
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.
I use non-algorithmic RSS feeds nowadays. Used to use Feedly, I've since switched to Read You on Android.