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Don’t stick to one channel. Don’t get your news from social media, because social media is an echo chamber.
Use an RSS feed aggregator app to consolidate boring news articles from multiple boring publications. This will give you an even spread.
You will see the same news stories from different news outlets with different spin. You will quickly come to understand various news publishers biases and how extreme they are.
Always go into an article with an understanding of the publishers biases that might be at play.
If you must do the news on social thing… Only use social to discuss stories you already understand to some degree. Or as a place to research the news topic deeper.
For the most part, just use social to hang with your communities… you know… like a social network :)
What do you recommend for an RSS app?
I could use android and desktop Linux recomendations too
I use NetNewsWire (on iOS) and swear by it. Super simple and easy to use.
The developer has an intensely focused vision for simplicity that I love and think is pretty wise too.
Inoreader RSS app for Android.
I've been using Nunti (FOSS, Android only) for a few months now. I love it's adaptive learning feature which does a good job of filtering articles that I don't care about.
Do you happen to know how long it may take the "adaptive learning" feature to kick in? I gather it may take some extended usage, however if that feature does seem to work I may have to reconsider Nunti, as I was initially put off by the absence of some other features when last I looked at it.
You can access it after you like/dislike 50 articles
Thanks! I must've missed or forgot that since I only briefly looked into it (and looking with a different feature in mind).
Search for open source rss feed readers. There are a few good ones.
NewsBlur is great.
QuiteRSS
I’ve just recently found iOS app “feeeed”
Inoreader
I've been using FocusReader on Android.
You can also check out ground.news for the same bias-check aggregator thing.
I use ImproveTheNews.org for this.
First story they show a picture of Yvan Attal (actor) when it is about what Gabriel Attal said (minister of education)
Definitely. You'd love Allsides.com btw. Gives great info on how a topic is covered across the spectrum and summarizes them really well. There's an RSS feed for it too.
Uh yeah but also I think I get a chance to get out and buy one yet or not to bad people I know you are going to be a little more than I do you know.