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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I use an app called Artifact that aggregates news from many sources into a FYP and categories. There’s even comments for each article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm going to try it

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

I've been using Artifact lately as well and it's been pretty good. You can tell it things you're interested in and it'll show you articles from different sites. It's been great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Artifact looks good, but after playing with it for a while I don't think I can deal with the account if ads and autoplaying videos in articles on an unfiltered internet... Might try opening everything in an ublock-fortified external browser, but that's a bit of a pain tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That looks pretty cool, thanks!

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

@Radicalized I saw some articles on artifact bearing the sign 'rewritten using an AI' and backed out of using the app to avoid that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I can ask: what are your concerns about AI?

You’ll have a harder and harder time avoiding AI content over even the next few months. ~14% of Americans have tried GPT directly, and nearly 85% use apps with AI integrated directly into the app (whether they know it or not).

The folks who put a disclaimer on their articles are at least trying to be transparent about it. But maybe you know something I don’t about AI content, so I figure I’d ask.

[–] tallwookie 1 points 1 year ago

i suspect that some folks have concerns about AI derived articles - it's software so it can be programmed to have a certain bias when "reporting" - despite the fact that actual human journalists are very biased in and of themselves.

or it could be people that have basically wasted their lives in journalism are very angry and are lashing out again AI because their livelihood and entire identity has been automated.