I have a mastodon account and would like to follow some newspapers with that. I just did, but the newspapers are posting so much that my whole timeline is just spammed with their posts. Often also stuff I am not interested in.

Is anyone else here following newspapers on mastodon? How are you handling the spam?

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Similarly I used to follow news groups on Mastodon, but found I was missing stories in-between my other follows. I ended up switching to RSS readers like Inoreader to handle my reading instead.

I know it’s answer-adjacent, but I hope that helps.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I think this really is the best solution to news sites.

I self-host FreshRSS, make good use of its filters, and I can chew through headlines and articles in no time using the web view on a PC or mobile web.

[–] mark@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

News sites are better to consume via RSS feeds. Check out openrss.org that has feeds for a lot of websites. There are even RSS feeds for Mastodon and Lemmy.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is no need to go through openrss.org for this.

https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/fediverse.xml?sort=New

[–] mark@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There is if you want RSS feeds for things like Lemmy search. And if you want the links in feed items to be associated with a single instance. AFAIK, regular Lemmy feeds dont provide that. But ofc people can use Lemmy feeds if they want.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think normal Lemmy feeds are all associated with the instance. What do you mean by Lemmy search? I know RSS has been around for ages but I'm always keen to make more use of it!

[–] mark@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can get an RSS feed for a Lemmy search term e.g.

https://openrss.org/programming.dev/search?q=cats

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

Ooh that's a cool one, cheers!

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Better to use an rss reader for that. You can get rss feeds directly from every mastodon server I believe.

also lemmy communities, if there are some too high-volume to keep up with in your main feed: https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/fediverse.xml?sort=New

[–] Mocha@discuss.online 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Are some of these posts, boosts as in reposts? There should be an option to hide a follower's boosts to prevent then from flooding your TL.

You can also hide replies and use key words filters to help keep your TL tidy.

Eta: links

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Somehow get them to have a separate feed/account for each writer, as well as each section,

and only subscribe to those subsections of their output YOU care about.

I don't expect ANY newspaper to have the working-brains to understand this concept.

Enforcement/enshittification is the only religion which fits in the heads of "executives", nowadays, right?

Unfortunately, that's the proper answer.