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?

  • @nivenkos
    1•1 year ago

    But you naturally will hear about important stuff anyway or see it on headlines in the supermarket, etc.

    Like when the Ukraine war started, the Ukrainians and Russians had a flame-war on the company slack.

    And if we really were going to die by climate disaster, nuclear war, pandemics, etc. isn’t it better not to know until it happens anyway?

    You can’t spend your life worrying about things that will materialise decades from now, or are going on thousands of miles away. Focus on your own life and your own family and community.

    • Balssh
      3•1 year ago

      I think Kbin replies are broken because I had to go to your profile to see your reply to me.
      Anyways, I don’t think being reasonable up to date with whatever happens in your country or in the world means “worrying about things that will materialize decades from now or are going on thousands of miles away”.
      For example, not watching news at all (I usually never use the TV nowadays) might make me miss some bad legislation that was/will be passed. I might miss protests against such things. Or I might be more prone to believing fake news about a certain topic (war in Ukraine for example).
      But I completely agree one should not be 24/7 worrying about news.

      • @nivenkos
        1•1 year ago

        But the protests make no difference anyway so why bother?

        And why does your opinion on Ukraine matter, are you an admiral or field marshal? Can you change anything anyway?

        Better to spend that time learning new songs on guitar, playing new video games, discovering new movies, or areas to go hiking, cities to go travelling, cooking and restaurants, etc. - actually enjoy life. It is short.

        • Balssh
          5•1 year ago

          I beg to differ, protests matter. At least here (Romania) they made those in power revert some bad legislation after seeing massive protests. Don’t mean to insult or anything, but this apathic approach towards civil society is a big factor in eroding democracy.
          Again, if enough people think a certain narrative then it will affect the events.
          You can both have a decent awareness of things around you and enjoy life to its fullest in my opinion.