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What's the best place to get news now? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Morningcoffee to c/[email protected]

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I got a lot of my headlines from reddit. Due to the impending death of my favorite app (Sync for Reddit) however, that's coming to an end.

I'm now realising my Reddit experience had deteriorated slowly, just doomscrolling the hours away wasn't healthy and I'm even kind of glad this is a good reason to end it. However, reddit has been really useful for news, especially the comments (taken with the right amount of skepticism) could be very informative.

I hope Lemmy builds something similar, but the defederation of beehaw's news has been a setback.

What would be a good alternative, going forward, for getting news and backgrounds from varied, trustworthy en unbiased sources?

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[–] tallwookie 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no source is truly unbiased, but I am also curious about where to find news/worldnews - there's a few non-beehaw options but they're not updated that often.

for tech stuff I always default to arstech, cnet, and slashdot, but I honestly dont feel like navigating between all of the various disparate news websites on a daily basis - or even a weekly basis to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly dont feel like navigating between all of the various disparate news websites on a daily basis - or even a weekly basis to be honest.

This is a perfect use case for a feed reader.

[–] tallwookie 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

any suggestions on a good feed reader?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like FeedMe (Android). Syncs to my Feedly account so I can also look at the web on my desktop

[–] Lauchs 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For years I've heard feed readers were better than reddit, I suppose now is the time to test!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I've tried a couple of times, but I miss reading comments. Some sites of course have comments but it's not the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly they are quite different, there are pros and cons. A feed reader shows purely what you are subscribed to, and there is no algorithm that rates which links you should see first. You have to curate your own feeds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I self host TinyTinyRSS (ttrss).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@tallwookie @Trusting I quite like NetNewsWire with Inoreader as a sync backend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My personal favorites: Inoreader for the cloud, Miniflux for self-hosting.