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Looking for an RSS aggregator/summarizer/maybe-LLM thing (nodebb.torsi.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Basically I want a self-hosted version of Google News. If 10 feeds have near-identical coverage of the same story, I want just 1 item, with an option to see the other 9.

I went looking for something like this a couple years ago and found ~nothing. Checked again today and now there are Entirely Too Many Things.

Hoping to find something a bit more established than somebody's abandoned weekend project. There seems to be an awful lot of that out there right now.

Looking for XML or similar output. Do not need or necessarily want any sort of front end.

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[–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Just found this thread from March looking for the exact same thing, with no helpful suggestions unfortunately. I think folks either don't understand what's being asked or don't understand how Google News works.

https://lemmy.world/post/26280691

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Then can you explain how google news works? I never used it, maybe a lot others have also no idea.

    From google reader i switched to feedly after google shut it down in 2013, when I started self hosting switched to ttrss, then to freshrss when it became apparent the developer of ttrss is an actual neonazi. It was always working for me so i never looked for a replacement.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    infeeeee@lemmy.zip It's a matter of duplication.

    Say you have 10 feeds from major news publishers in your reader, BBC, NY Times, Le Monde, etc. because you value wide coverage. When the King of England dies you will have 10 nearly identical articles in your feed with the facts of his death from those outlets, plus at least another 10 nearly identical ones reminiscing about his life and impact, and dozens more related ones from various contributors. Your feed will be clogged for days with repeated info about one old dead guy. This is an annoying reality of RSS.

    On Google News there will be one box dedicated to His Royal Corpse showing maybe a few stories, semi-randomly selected for relevance by an algorithm. If you want the fire hose coverage it's a click away, but on the front page it's contained and doesn't dominate everything else. I want that for RSS.

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