I have loved Planet Maemo ever since I discovered it; it's a great source of (usually) reliable information, coming directly from experts and people deeply involved in the community.

I first noticed a change when recently a few blogs were aggregated that basically all repeated each other's content - content that I'd read before either here on t.m.o. or elsewhere. The kind of content I would blog about myself. I thought I could cope with that because maybe after a while, those blogs would develop and provide genuine content.

Now I even find tweets from twitter syndicated to planet Maemo, which was the last straw for me and made me write this.

What I'd be interested in:

• Am I the only one who thinks it's getting too much recently? If so, just forget about it and I'll subscribe to selected blogs without relying on the planet.
• I know that how to deal with the planet and which blogs to syndicate was a topic every now and then here on t.m.o., usually along the lines of "there should be more end user oriented content". - I used to support that, now I don't any more. - Aside from being mentioned every now and then here, is there an ongoing discussion about the planet policy somewhere (wiki, mailing list?) that I missed?
• Do any of you subscribe to the (community-filtered) http://maemo.org/news/items.xml instead of the planet? Does that work (as in: Would I miss relevant information that way?) - It's cruel to do this because you don't actively partivipate in the useful ranking process then, but still...

If this comes across too negatively, I apologize... I still read the planet first thing in the morning and I've yet to find a better alternative; also, if things stay as they are now it might still be acceptable once I get used to it. It's just that I see the danger that in 3 months, there'll be 20 posts/day (or 20 tweets/hour) all pointing to the same video on youtube.