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Here's a Mastodon server that mirrors many Ukraine-related Twitter accounts: https://fed.celp.de/@uanews https://fed.celp.de/@uanews (Who knows how long it wil

by kibwen 3y ago

Here's a Mastodon server that mirrors many Ukraine-related Twitter accounts: https://fed.celp.de/@uanews https://fed.celp.de/@uanews (Who knows how long it will keep working, of course.)

veave 3y ago
Doesn't seem very neutral.
- bloopernova 3y ago
  I don't understand. Are you saying you want an aggregator that does 50/50 Ukrainian and russian tweets?
  - fckthisguy 3y ago
    Imagine asking for 50% Allied / 50% Axis news.
    - sorenjan 3y ago
      No no, you don't understand, the war was started by Poland! They attacked Germany in the Gleiwitz incident, you have to get unbiased news from both sides to properly assess the situation and stay truly neutral and enlightened.
      - pessimizer 3y ago
        Imagine thinking the Allies didn't also use dishonest propaganda during WWII.
- ncallaway 3y ago
  So? Neither am I.
- aftbit 3y ago
  Most English-language content about the Ukranian war is slanted in favor of Ukraine. This is partially because of the relevant military alliances (Europe and the USA support Ukraine) but much more because Russians are the aggressor here. War isn't clean or simple, but there are clearly good and bad guys in this one. The Russian justifications for the war are 100% pretextual and invalid, just like they were in 2014. I'm not sure why anyone wants "neutrality" to mean 50/50 airtime, instead of attempting to present the best available picture of the world, even if it's not favorable to one side.
troad 3y ago
It has stopped working. It was using nitter. It's also not a great list. Igor Sushko, for example, is very susceptible to posting unverified things that later turn out to be false. A much better list is Noah Smith's at: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1492242776825552896 https://twitter.com/i/lists/1492242776825552896. Yes, you now need to log in to see it, unfortunately. Public Twitter lists seem like the sort of thing that's quite scrape-able though, even behind a login wall. With sufficient caching & semi-randomised access it should be fairly hard to detect which account is doing the scraping.

by kibwen 3y ago

Here's a Mastodon server that mirrors many Ukraine-related Twitter accounts: https://fed.celp.de/@uanews https://fed.celp.de/@uanews (Who knows how long it will keep working, of course.)

veave 3y ago

Doesn't seem very neutral.

bloopernova 3y ago
I don't understand. Are you saying you want an aggregator that does 50/50 Ukrainian and russian tweets?
- fckthisguy 3y ago
  Imagine asking for 50% Allied / 50% Axis news.
  - sorenjan 3y ago
    No no, you don't understand, the war was started by Poland! They attacked Germany in the Gleiwitz incident, you have to get unbiased news from both sides to properly assess the situation and stay truly neutral and enlightened.
    - pessimizer 3y ago
      Imagine thinking the Allies didn't also use dishonest propaganda during WWII.
ncallaway 3y ago
So? Neither am I.
aftbit 3y ago
Most English-language content about the Ukranian war is slanted in favor of Ukraine. This is partially because of the relevant military alliances (Europe and the USA support Ukraine) but much more because Russians are the aggressor here. War isn't clean or simple, but there are clearly good and bad guys in this one. The Russian justifications for the war are 100% pretextual and invalid, just like they were in 2014. I'm not sure why anyone wants "neutrality" to mean 50/50 airtime, instead of attempting to present the best available picture of the world, even if it's not favorable to one side.

troad 3y ago

It has stopped working. It was using nitter. It's also not a great list. Igor Sushko, for example, is very susceptible to posting unverified things that later turn out to be false. A much better list is Noah Smith's at: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1492242776825552896 https://twitter.com/i/lists/1492242776825552896. Yes, you now need to log in to see it, unfortunately. Public Twitter lists seem like the sort of thing that's quite scrape-able though, even behind a login wall. With sufficient caching & semi-randomised access it should be fairly hard to detect which account is doing the scraping.