Several RSS-based news communities
![email protected] - BBC. This contains several feeds in one community, tagged with flair to distinguish between them - use PieFed's "membership" setting on the community to filter out the ones you don't want.
![email protected] - Aljazeera only provides a single RSS feed so it's quite the mixed bag.
![email protected] - RNZ, for a perspective from the edge of the world. Again, use flair to filter out.
![email protected] - positive news stories.
![email protected] - Axios, The Atlantic, etc. Has flair.
Posts in these communities are automatically deleted after 28 days, to avoid cluttering up people's servers. Cross-post them into 'real' communities to discuss them.
PieFed recently added RSS-ingestion functionality - this is not done with an external bot-script thing. If you have some good RSS feeds, make an account on crust.piefed.social and go for it.
You can block @[email protected] if these kind of bots annoy you. All the rss feeds on that instance use the same account.