General news, niche hobby news, anything - what sources do you regularly read?
Lemmy, so it’s often outdated or wrong.
Honestly yeah, I might set up my own rss reader and see how that goes. I like engaging with the Lemmy community though.
Yeah i like the community not as zealous as Reddit yet.
I dont consume news actively. I stopped watching tv and listening to radio because of ads and news. Both are not great for my mental health. Too stressful, too manipulative.
When something pops up in the fedi, I read it. If it becomes too much, I mute it.
Generally my policy is that if it’s news I need to hear, it will find its way to me one way or another. I need not go seeking it out. I will look up something I’ve heard if I want more info, but I don’t read news for its own sake.
The great bulk of news that reaches me being second, third, fourth-hand and beyond means I’m not well-informed about anything. But at least I’m not wasting brain cells on whatever dumb shit did, or what shit said, or what breakthrough made that does not remotely lead to the conclusion the article implies, or some journalist’s speculative opinion piece masquerading as news.
If I could just get a dry listing of everything that happened the previous day, only including events of actual consequence like “law passed” or “person died” or “business discontinues product/service”, and leaving behind any event that can be effectively retold as " scrawled message on public toilet stall" (like many celebrity and political articles) or anticipation pieces that try to predict future events, I’d be satisfied.
Sounds pretty good. I personally enjoy computers and science stuff so that I do read but I get real pissed if the article is loaded with political opinions disguised as science, independent of it is aligned to my view or not.
I have these in my rss feed:
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
- http://rss.sciam.com/ScientificAmerican-Global
- https://thewalrus.ca/feed/
- https://api.quantamagazine.org/feed/
- https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml
- http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
- https://www.linux.com/feed/
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml
- https://theintercept.com/feed/?lang=en
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/feeds/index.xml
- https://newrepublic.com/rss.xml
- https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
- https://www.wsws.org/en/rss.xml
whatever gets posted on the fedi
so a lot of ap news, reuters, 404, im suire youve seen what gets posted
CBC and Lemmy
Nowhere in particular. News is comparative.
Ground New, News Minimalist, RSS
I spend a couple of hours each morning with coffee exploring a majority selection of these sites to get a quality overview.
You can take vice off that list soon.
Couple of hours… each morning? Did you win the lottery or something?
Not OP, but I am in a blue collar job and do the same. I get up at 4am and between brewing then drinking my coffee, eating a small breakfast, using the facilities, and doing general stuff getting ready to go to work, I then leave about 615am and clock in by 7am. I either read or listen to the news the whole time, or in this case, I also replied to your comment.
I sued PayPal and won
Grist Magazine is pretty good, mostly focuses on environmental news
I don’t go out of my way to get news, so social media/Lemmy. Except for local news, which I do follow more closely. But that’s it.
Radio and podcasts 😸
Tea leaves are pretty competitive these days.
Not American, so I usually check the front page of CNN to get a general sense of what the media is talking about right now. I get a lot of my political news from Seth Meyers’ and Stephen Colbert’s monologues as well, since the snark is fun.
For local and regional news I use the CBC and my local newspaper.
And I guess Lemmy, but that’s more of a secondary source than a resource I think of when I’m searching for current events.
- APOD - start my day with some perspective
- techmeme - aggregates tech news
- memeorandum - aggregates political news
- HuffingtonPost - nice mix of serious & trashy pop culture junk
- Politico - slightly right, but very serious analysis
- Mother Jones - very left, but well-written
- Then a few thousand RSS feeds, which I read in Feedbin.
- Fediverse, Lemmy, etc.
Mostly RSS news. Sometimes Youtube, Lemmy or socializing.