Howdy folks!

I’ve been reflecting on the spread of content found in !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital and did a little investigating. I had a feeling that there were some British publications that were highly represented in the feed, but wanted to confirm if that was really true. Here are my findings:

25% of the feed, is quite a lot. It doesn’t help as well that morningstaronline.co.uk has sports coverage that I’ve tried to filter out of the feed. Sadly, the RSS they provide does not tag their posts in any way. This means I would need to perform some kind of look up on that specific publication for sports related keywords and bounce the post, which is going to be very prone to error and false positives.

A new community focused on Great Britain.

So, I’ve decided to move these publications into a new community !Britain@news.abolish.capital. Which will house them going forward. If you want leftist news about Britain, you can find it there. This also allows for more British publications to be added to the site without feeling like I’m contributing more Britain focused content into an already British skewed feed. At the time of this posting, there are about 15 stories in the queue, once those have run their course, you’ll see the publications in the table above begin posting in this new community.

My goal for pravda_news has always been one to highlight world news, and that can be a struggle depending on available sources, and those sources rate of posting. theconnary.co Is a good example. This brings me to another idea that I’ve had in my head for a while now.

Cross posting from communities (idea)

This isn’t implemented yet, but it could be easy to do. The idea is simple. In the other communities, top stories (of a given time-span, undecided at this moment) would be cross-posted into !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital. This would effectively act as a community filter, taking what people found upvote worthy over the last X hours in other communities, and automatically cross-posting those stories into !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital.

This would allow the site to have these siloed communities with focused themes, but still serve that content into the larger, more populated feed. Hopefully in turn it encourages people to join those other feeds.

No timeline on this feature currently. But would be interested in hearing people’s thoughts.

Reflecting

I hope this content has been useful to you in some way. I’m always surprised to see how many people engage with the feeds provided here! There is a great diversity of participation from across the network, which is encouraging! It feels like this site has been in operation for much longer, but we’ve only been up for the last 8 months. So much has happened in that 8 months time as well, and these feeds have chronicled a lot of it.

Thanks for reading!