I built an app in this same space (news aggregation, real-time discussions) and hope it is OK to share it as a comment to this post: https://newscussion.com . Its a little different in that latest news don't come from users posting them but rather are brought in via a third party API.

Really happy to see Sqwok in this same space, as it validates that there are folks interested in ephemeral / real-time discussions around latest news :)

@holler Let me know if you'd like to talk dev stories about building for this space, I'd be down.