Hey beehaw. I’m here after years of being on Twitter, and I know a lot of y’all are on Lemmy/the fediverse after spending a lot of time on there or reddit.
I’m wondering: does anyone have any tips for coping with the lack of ambient awareness of what’s going on in the world after you lose your main information source? I used to get a vague idea of what was going on on Twitter, with on the ground reports on things like protests from people who were there. Now that is, for the most part, gone.
I’m both looking for tips on dealing with having less information-- the fact is that I don’t need to know as much as I did-- and help with finding emotionally healthy ways to keep up with news, some of the time. I’m also happy to hear about other people’s experiences with this kind of thing happening in the past; I’m sure some of y’all have been through this before.
I ended up setting up rss feeds and am reading more articles now. I come here for the comment socializing and occasionally I still use reddit in Google searches when I need more specific information.
This is the way. If you just want news and not the “social experience”, an RSS Reader is the best way to keep up with the world. Shame that a lot of non-tech news websites have removed (or hidden) their RSS feed in order to replace them with trackable (= ads) email newsletters.
this is what i was going to suggest. while i haven’t set up an rss feed myself (yet), i think it sounds like that would likely be a great option for OP in this situation.
Tell me more, is love to get started on rss feeds. What’s your personal experience?
I mostly downloaded an app, Feedly and then Inoreader (I like this one better). Then I just used their interface to subscribe to all the sites I was interested in. It was as easy as subscribing to subs on reddit. I get a lot of repeat articles as I have a lot of crossover, but overall it’s been pretty good.