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What's the best place to get news now? (lemmy.world)

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

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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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[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RSS feeds from PBS and NPR

[–] Soullioness@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Soki@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You install an RSS reader app on your phone or computer and subscribe to the feed links. Those contain some metadata for each story and a link to the content. The RSS reader will display everything in a readable way.

[–] _finger_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there an RSS reader with built in comment sections?

[–] dogmuffins@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No, that's kind of antithetical to how rss works.

The RSS protocol is basically just a list of links. So each content producer publishes their own list, to which people subscribe. Comments stay in their respective communities.

For example, you could have an rss feed from a reddit sub, and another from a lemmy community, and another from a newspaper.

Of course you could build an app with its own comment section, but as I said that would kind of undermine the elegance of RSS.

[–] OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.