NewsUser

u/NewsUser@fediverse.boo
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We need more content

I spun up an instance because I dislike what Reddit is doing and I want to support this community and help it grow.

Regarding the content you are talking about: https://fediverse.boo/magazines

I've set up automatic news feeds from the BBC, NPR, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and CNN so far to their own magazines. That way you can subscribe to a specific magazine to get articles from the publishers you like. (I'm also still tweaking how much content gets pulled in so its not too much or too little). I also have a catch-all news magazine that I manually curate news article links for.

I plan on adding additional magazines that aggregate links from other websites (not just news) but I am waiting to hear from the community on what content they would like to see.

Ok, thats my like 30 second elevator spiel about my instance and my magazines. Definitely drop me some feedback if there is any additional content I should automatically add to dedicated magazines. Hope to see some new people jumping into discussions on posts over there!

We didn't ask for and didn't need this.. I think companies are banking on the nostalgia of 80s to early 00s kids. And I also think it is working lol

Furbys are awful nightmare fuel (and apparently there was a furby board game at one point), but I'll gladly take some non-nightmare fuel nostalgia from the 90s - early 00s

Thank you! I’m wanting to get the various news bots up and running first on their own magazines. Then I will likely jump into the kbin code and work on a multi-subreddit feature to combine it all together. Baby steps though, right? NPR bot is slowly getting more feeds added to it and it’s adding more posts to its magazine.

P.S. if you have any more feedback, definitely let me know! I want this to be a cool community we build stuff around. Now that I know how to write a new bot for kbin, I should be able to do the same for just about any other content out there