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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Morningcoffee@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Cha0zz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe not directly an answer to your question but I don’t believe Reddit was a trustworthy and unbiased news source. Hell it wasn’t even that varied imo with news mainly being about what’s happening in the US with a focus on politics. Tbh I really don’t know what a good news source would be that thicks all your boxes.

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the truth of the matter usually came out in the comments

[-] Cha0zz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Sure I agree with that. The problem is that the comments also often include statements without sources, plain out wrong information, etc. Much of which can also be highly upvoted. So even with the context of the comments finding unbiased good news requires you to be very sceptic and isn’t always straightforward. Additionally each subreddit has its own target audience which will also inherently result in some bias in both the news that is posted as the comments on said news. But tbh a perfectly unbiased news source probably does not exist as we are all human.

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

You're right you gotta bring your bucket of salt for all them pinches, but it was often the case that if someone posted a bullshit answer there'd be a repudiation to it; if that one was bollocks? Someone else chimed in. Eventually you have enough to aggregate some semblance of the truth.

The pitfall is relying on votes to do the vetting for you, and reluctance to research under your own power in lieu of citations. Cumbersome work, but if you really want the real picture it's never 100% painless.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I agree that there was generally a consensus in the comments, but that doesn't mean the consensus was correct. Often, different subreddits would come to different conclusions. I think there is a big risk of falling in to the "conformation bias" trap when relying on community consensus.

In not sure if there's a better way to determine the truth, though.

[-] Radicalized@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] OrangeXarot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I'm going to try it

[-] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

That looks pretty cool, thanks!

[-] mcc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Check out ground news. It is a news aggregator, but with a twist: it aggregates all articles on the same event from various sites so you can see how the event is portrayed by different sites.

[-] aleph-1@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

ground.news is great.

There's also allsides.com, which has a similar idea.

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Trusting@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

any suggestions on a good feed reader?

[-] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dominik@nona.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lady_mongrel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I use feeder on android and have an RSS feed with news sources. You have to find them first and then see of they have and RSS feed.

Also you can make an RSS feed from mastodon if they toot their stories or use nitter to transform their twitter to a feed.

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I have seen mentioned Feeder a lot as of lately, I have been using Feedly since all the Google RSS BS (heh, sounds familiar doesn't it?) And never looked for everything else (then came Reddit, then Lemmy lol) I never got rid of Feedly though, I tried othes like Flipboard but that one never catched my eye.

What would Feeder provide me that Feedly does not?

[-] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

I use FeedMe and connect to Feedly. That way I can add unlimited categories, Feedly only allows 3 on the free plan. Works like a charm.

[-] nivenkos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's best to never read the news, you'll find about stuff that actually affects you naturally anyway.

Focus on communities for your hobbies and career instead.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I like to keep up to date enough on the things my government chooses to do so that I can make an informed choice the next time I vote.

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

for regular news article style news I use feedly and just have selected all the usual news organizations. for less formal "news" I was using reddit, but now I'm starting to use kbin I guess haha. I still use twitter as well.

[-] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I expect it'll take a while for kbin / the fediverse to acquire, and me to find, segments focused on some of the niche areas I had on that other site, but ehh. I knew there would be costs in leaving.

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

yup. I used reddit a lot for more niche stuff, and so far kbin and the fediverse hasn't quite captured the same things just yet

[-] degrails@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Just subscribe to RSS feeds from your new sites.

I use InnoReader, which I prefer to Feedly. Syncs Free plan allows you up to 150 feeds and shows ads (which you can easily get around).

[-] Emberleaf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I just discovered https://newsnotfound.com/ and I quite like it! Well worth checking out. :)

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

RSS feeds from PBS and NPR

[-] Soullioness@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As someone that's never used RSS, how does it work?

[-] OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Both of them have truly neutral coverage, as in they report based on fact and reality and don't limit what they write in order to maintain some false sense of neutrality. Many news sites nowadays play down objective fact in order to maintain "neutrality" between one side of the political spectrum that believes in evidence and statistical fact and one that expressly does not.

This of course means that they're seen as being "anti-Trump" or "anti-Republican" but in actuality it's reality itself that is anti-Trump and they just report reality.

[-] 14specks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would caution against putting so much faith in them both so strongly. They both favor American establishment liberal politics, which is transparent to many due to the fact that a lot of Americans agree with those politics, and that they appear very reasonable in comparison to whatever tf Republicans are up to on a given day.

It's not a bad thing that they tend to have a very dry and straightforward tone, but all outlets are biased, and it's important to remain critical at all times if you want to have an accurate picture of a current event.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I've started using newsminimalist.com It's one of the most useful LLM based services I've seen. It's an aggregator that uses ChatGPT to identify the significance of stories and group the articles on different sites about that story together and then summarise them.

I don't want to spend hours every day reading news, but I do want to keep up to date with major events and it's been good for that.

[-] ramesdunc@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like brutalist.report.

It shows the headlines of many news sites in a clean way: just text links. It also has filters for tech, science, politics, etc.

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[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

go to ground.news, they have news from both sides of the spectrum and label them as such and it's kind of like a reddit for news?? world news specifically tho

[-] Kodachrome@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hacker News has long been one of my main news sources. The majority of postings are tech-related but there's a lot of more general content and the moderation is very good. https://news.ycombinator.com/ . I generally use Feedly to browse it.

For excellent, in-depth analysis of world events/politics/economics there's the UK-based publication The Economist - https://www.economist.com/ - which is a paid service (expensive!) but has a lot of free content on the site, esp. if you're signed-up, even as a free user. It's not an aggregator though - more like a better NY Times without all the stupid fluff.

[-] redditblackoutkekw@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

Aljazeera is fantastic, I've been reading them for years and years. Their middle eastern news tends to be biased, but everything else is good. Of course, never trust a single news source on anything

[-] krash@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I find Aljazeera as biased as fox news can be. Aljazeera is a impressive news network, but I would absolutely not recommend them as a news source.

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