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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 1 points 1 year ago

RSS feeds from PBS and NPR

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

The context I got from reddit comment threads was invaluable. I hope to find something similar in the federated wilderness.

[–] Cha0zz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago

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