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?

  • OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Oh fully agree, of course. Every once in a while I see a neoliberal dipshit in their opinion columns making some abhorrent take, but generally they’re significantly better than WaPo, NYT, CNN, Fox, CNBC, NBC, or CBS.

    Some other good ones are Reuters, Al Jazeera, and the Associated Press, which of course each come with their own set of biases as well. Reuters is also fairly establishment liberal, Al Jazeera is useless for any news about the Middle East, and AP’s opinion and analysis columns lean pretty conservative.

    My comment was more in the sense that a “neutral” news site is one where they do not suppress facts because those facts favor a perceived “side” of a debate, which is becoming increasingly common as major political parties in the US and abroad start pushing outright falsehoods in their rhetoric.

    • OrangeSliceMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Fair enough, that’s actually close to the mix I have in my RSS reader, although I also would add the SCMP and teleSur as well

      • OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        I’ll take a look at those! I should really consider setting up an RSS feed for news coverage. Kinda been meaning to for a while, do you have an RSS reader that you prefer?

        • OrangeSliceMEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Liferea works well for me, but if you aren’t using Linux then we can all long for Google Reader to come back lol. https://miniflux.app/ also looks good but takes some setting up it looks like.

          Also be aware in advance that teleSur is Cuban/Venezuelan/Bolivian state media, but it sounds like you have decent enough media criticism skills to appreciate their point of view in comparison to the US-based outlets.

          • OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Thanks for the recommendations and info! That’s another thing on my to-do list, I’m planning on making my main PC do dual-boot with Windows 10 and Linux and once Windows 11 gets forced I’m done with Microsoft (but that’s a whole other conversation lmao).

            • OrangeSliceMEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Definitely, I’ve used it on all my personal PCs for most of the last 10 years (plus). It’s gotten even easier in the past 3-4 years since gaming support has gotten so good (check your faves on protondb.com and see for yourself).