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Reuters, AP News, and some national tv broadcasts. I try to stay away from those with agendas but you know…
I've given up on national news post election. I used to read the Washington post as well as the daily ABC podcast. Post election its just a bummer. I will probably go back to keeping informed eventually but I'm not there yet.
I really don't, anymore.
Maybe I'll get hints of something from my contacts or my partner, but that's indirect.
4chan, lemmy, and discord. Yes, I know I'm a moron.
Mostly the wire services (Reuters, AP) and some reputable sources that don't try to spin things one way or another (NPR, BBC, ProPublica)
I've been using Ground News. But it's been so depressing I'm considering checkout out for a bit.
With all the stuff recently I've been thinking similarly about Lemmy. It's a bit "much".
On the bright side, I've been meaning to read a book for months and that finally gave me the impetus to start:-). I really enjoy how calming that is, as opposed to continual doomscrolling.
Good to see you here!
RSS feed from a variety of reliable news sources
Such as?
Just whatever makes it on fedi, fark, and the news here in Japan. I do occasionally watch local/regional US news where my family live if something is going on (hurricanes or such for example).
None of the parties align with my views and I'm tired of pretending that they do. So I don't.
Understandable. What about local news?
I use a Scanner Radio (Android) app for "emergency" events. Duno if iPhone has an app like it.
For actual news local radio or OTA but I rarely tune in.
This methodology came about after being annoyed stressed out and fed up with the way things are going. Everyone blames they want change but 1 out of 3.35 milare willing to attempt to make a change. Not fully saying violence is the way but it sure seems like it worked for the rich and powerful.
Lemmy, NPR, and occasionally CNN/AP/Reuters/whatever if I need to look something up I guess.
Mostly Lemmy and NPR.
TikTok for the initial what's going on then various different reputable (the little I can find) news sites.
Yes I get news from tiktok because they don't do as much propaganda bullshit other social media sites do lik blocking certain subjects because they don't like it.
I don't use tiktok. I thought it was just vertical videos of people doing stuff. How does it present news?
It is but a lot of times people find something out from places not the American news has, for instance people from other countries knowing things the American news don't really say.
It has anything and everything it seems like, really good at finding others who are like me, very diverse and different kinda people on there. Yes bad people obviously, but that's the Internet in general.
People talk about things on there. Give there personal opinions and thoughts on stuff.
That's an interesting perspective - I hear that what's bad about it is more the data tracking, but that it delivers on content so people like it. How does it compare to YouTube in terms of blocking content, do you happen to know?
I don't really know that much about what YouTube blocks. All I know is I get a shit ton .ore lgbt and neurodivergent people on TikTok randomly then I ever do on YouTube. I get my diversity and different people. YouTube just seems like it's all click bait shit I can't handle. "Top ten ***" kinda stuff. And when I tried YouTube shorts I couldn't find anything relatable or wanting. And they all seemed very just generic.
Sorry, I dunno where the word blocking came from in my reply - fat fingering I guess:-).
TikTok is well known for honing in on your preferences - which is both great and perhaps dangerous at the same time, be careful? Like Google, they may start charging money to get what you currently receive now for free.
That's really odd that your YouTube is showing generic stuff - for most people it shows the same content, so you must be stopping their trackers somehow.:-)
Well I do have setup's that stop as much adds and tracking I can get. Including a hacked version of TikTok. And it's giga corps regardless of what country. I always never trust them.
Including a hacked version of TikTok.
Very interested into this, where did you get that? At the moment I'm using a burner phone to use TikTok to keep my privacy, so a revanced version of TikTok would be nice
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