It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect… It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It’s no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it’s early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

  • @[email protected]English
    55•10 months ago

    Don’t stick to one channel. Don’t get your news from social media, because social media is an echo chamber.

    Use an RSS feed aggregator app to consolidate boring news articles from multiple boring publications. This will give you an even spread.

    You will see the same news stories from different news outlets with different spin. You will quickly come to understand various news publishers biases and how extreme they are.

    Always go into an article with an understanding of the publishers biases that might be at play.

    If you must do the news on social thing… Only use social to discuss stories you already understand to some degree. Or as a place to research the news topic deeper.

    For the most part, just use social to hang with your communities… you know… like a social network :)

      • @[email protected]English
        4•10 months ago

        I use NetNewsWire (on iOS) and swear by it. Super simple and easy to use.

        The developer has an intensely focused vision for simplicity that I love and think is pretty wise too.

      • æjineiEnglish
        4•10 months ago

        iOS & MacOS recommendation Free: NetNewsWire Paid: Reeder 5 (one time payment)

      • @[email protected]English
        3•10 months ago

        I’ve been using Nunti (FOSS, Android only) for a few months now. I love it’s adaptive learning feature which does a good job of filtering articles that I don’t care about.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•10 months ago

          Do you happen to know how long it may take the “adaptive learning” feature to kick in? I gather it may take some extended usage, however if that feature does seem to work I may have to reconsider Nunti, as I was initially put off by the absence of some other features when last I looked at it.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•10 months ago

              Thanks! I must’ve missed or forgot that since I only briefly looked into it (and looking with a different feature in mind).

    • @markEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      Definitely. You’d love Allsides.com btw. Gives great info on how a topic is covered across the spectrum and summarizes them really well. There’s an RSS feed for it too.

    • @[email protected]English
      -2•10 months ago

      Uh yeah but also I think I get a chance to get out and buy one yet or not to bad people I know you are going to be a little more than I do you know.