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As poudlardo say, you can use the feeds of your favorite news sites, but there are also a independend and OpenSource alternative to Google News https://trends.gab.com
Yikes! I took a look at the comments on gab and it seems to be overrun by backwoods hillbilly nutjobs. No thanks.
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Obviously this community does not allow free speech To the user's question for an expressly **OpenSource **alternative to Google News, I have thanked another user's alternative of using RSS, considering it the best option. But also to help I have bothered to look for an OpenSource alternative to Google News and the only thing that corresponds to this criterion was Gab that most coincided with it, already independent of the evaluation that the user who was looking for it can give, which I do not know. If this here gives me bad Karma, I can only say goodbye to this community, may you do well with your Karma. Greetings, bye
It's a copypasta
Hi, where's the source for gab? I hate nazis but if they have developed a good piece of software i'd be tempted to fork it. Usually it goes the other way around with nazis forking lemmy/postmill/mastodon... I don't think that website is "open source" at all, even less so "free software". It's just a centralized platform like any other spurring proto-fascist disinformation. I'll pass :)
In the french speaking world we have mediaslibres.org, a simple planet taking RSS feeds from all autonomous news website. It's the only source of information i find reliable because it's moderated by non-profit communities and all information comes "from the ground" not from ivory towers. I dont know yet of an english speaking equivalent.
gab is a free speech website, you should refrain from posting it here. otherwise I will be forced to issue an additional downvote
Honest question: do you have good radical resources on "free speech" vs "free hate"? Not so long ago "free speech" was interpreted as freedom to challenge systems of oppression through speech and that used to be a foundational basis of revolutionary antiracist/antisexist/anticapitalist movements to advertise for free speech because if the State gets to decide what you can say, and they're the ones promoting and benefiting from all systems of domination, then we're fucked.
Of course, the "right to free speech" was very rarely interpreted in favor of anti-domination movements and that gave many political trials. I'm in favor of strong moderation myself and apply strict no-reactionary policies on the spaces i moderate, but i find it strange on a political forum like this one to see "free speech" equated with reactionary views. If the State controls what you can think and say, it's not nazis that are gonna have a bad time (see Don't ask, don't tell, Mccarthyism, etc..)