Not sure of the premise behind this, so maybe I’m missing the point, but why not curate quality news sources and access them via an rss news reader like NetNewsWire?
- He sees no point in adding another layer of abstraction and complexity to something simple.
- he's into retro computing, and old machines can't handle NNW.
- Fewer and fewer web sites support RSS, so using NNW limits his options.
- Sometimes you want to read the news from a particular web site, and not graze at a buffet.
According to the people complaining on HN, yes. It's been a common topic of conversation on this web site for the last five years or so.
No RSS here: https://www.rfi.fr
The New York Times does RSS, but among major news organizations, it is one of the exceptions.
All blog frameworks have support by default...
Good for blogs.
Equally, why not just use one of the many FOSS tools to scrape sites that don't offer RSS feeds and DIY your own? This is a long-solved problem; RSS remains wonderful.
It will be more and more difficult to make a Google/DDG/Kagi search and spot the autogenerated crap. So maybe it will be time to manually select blogs/websites we like and trust. And RSS is amazing for that.
Still one of my favourite things to emerge on the net. Especially being able to filter through feeds!