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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] mcc 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ground.news is great.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was just going to link that! Two articles on the topic:

https://www.thefactual.com/blog/what-are-the-best-nonpartisan-news-sources/

https://www.makeuseof.com/top-unbiased-news-sources/

I tried my hand at creating a magazine https://kbin.social/m/neutralnews

Haven't done a lot with it, though. But it was in response to the same dilemma as OP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the tip, trying it now, very interesting concept

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Damn thats a good call. What a great site.