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!

This shouldn't be news to anyone, personally I thought it was space and sea exploration dangers were pretty self explanatory, guess not lol

He'll be 78 in 10 years, I don't know how much longer he can keep up that release schedule

Follow up, I think I fixed it. Looks like CNN was intertwining ads to look like posts in the feed, had to kick those out.

US law applies to Russians inside of the United States though. I suppose the US could also request extradition from allied countries as well. Although, we have seen how captured prisoners between the US and Russia are treated and traded..so like you said, there isn’t much the US can do

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

@exohuman I think they are afraid of change and new technology. To be fair, there have been instances where we have introduced a new species of something to deal with a different invasive species…just to have our introduced species take their place. I believe it was frogs in Australia? (Citation needed)

Only for dedicated magazines are the posts automated. I do manually curate and post news links in its own magazine though.

Sommeliers have always been a strange concept to me anyways

I'm just waiting for them to add AI to the wine itself since they wanna add AI to everything nowadays

The intention is to provided automated news feeds in dedicated magazines for people to subscribe to. I have asked for community feedback on if the feeds have too many posts but I haven’t heard anything from anybody

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

Could you be a bit more specific on what you mean by hard news content? Like just the top few stories from each news source from each day?

It definitely makes you do a double take when you hear stuff like, someone warned the CEO of safety onboard and that person was fired on the spot. And then the CEO took a ride on that same exact sub

@exohuman It’s likely the same reason they “pressured” websites of the early internet implement “age verification.” Like you said, kids are already on these platforms so they aren’t stopping anything. I guess it makes them feel like they are protecting kids from stranger danger.