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How to follow newspapers on mastodon without being spammed? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 9 months ago by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Hi,

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 9 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 9 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.