@aks I'd even say that *and netnews*, but I'm probably biased as a long-time Gwene user :-P
(still, I'd say the fediverse is a good way to get additional information about some topics - but that's not the same as a news outlet. I frequently get things about fipol here on Mastodon, along with posts about a few tech articles, and it's also how I first learned of CVE-2024-3094)
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@m (I'm counting #Gmane's #Gwene over #NetworkNews as an RSS (and atom) feed reader, so I picked "every day".)
(Although, to be fair, in my case that should be "every day as schedule and stress allow" which can, under certain planetary alignments, almost translate into "weekly"...)
@jpaskaruk @Daojoan I'd say it's hard to beat network news. For reading blogs, if a feed with full content is available, #Gwene at #Gmane (http://gwene.org). There is also http://feedbase.org/about/ another service like Gwene but with the ability to comment on posts (IIRC those comments are local, and not synced with the comments on the web).
And the time is good to get back on #USENET, the current spam wave (thousands of messages/day injected by Google) is scheduled to end on February 22.
Is that Gnus? I still read my email in Gnus.
Gnus makes a great email / RSS reader. If Gwene ever goes down I'll be sad. Gnus is shockingly slow, though, but I mostly don't care.
I literally switched away from Gmail because they wouldn't let me use Gnus anymore.
In Gnus, you can subscribe to arbitrary folders. Now that's a feature. Can you subscribe to a folder on Feedly? No.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Directory-Groups.html
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