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?
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.
I very actively followed news and politics a couple of years ago, and had been doing that for a long time. One day I just got completely fed up, and stopped. And holy shit, I’ve been so much happier and harmonious since then. Strongly recommend, 5/7
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.
I just avoid the news. Sometimes it just “appears”, like hearing a radio somewhere, then I’ll listen to a little bit. Sometimes it’s quite surreal once you’ve been out of the loop long enough.
If anything important happens I have a friend who’s politically active and in the loop, he’ll tell me. Second-hand news is the best.
This. And you see how some stuff is just sensationalised bullshit.
Like I heard a little bit about the debt ceiling “crisis” - was like, I bet they’ll just make an agreement right before like last time… and then weeks later that’s exactly what happened.
There’s so much sensationalism and doomerism, it really isn’t healthy.