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Crossposting because I thought this would be interesting for this community.

Transcript:

Y’all, how do you guys get your news?

I live in Canada and this legislation called Bill C-18 has sort of messed things up in the past year.

If you get your news typically from social media, a lot of platforms have-- I say a lot, but it’s really just Meta, but because they own so much, they’ve stopped allowing the publication of Canadian news on their platforms. So all I’m getting is American news.

I get enough of that from TikTok, you guys. It’s harder and I know that you’re not supposed to be getting your news all at one place and that social media kind of messes up the integrity of news, but whatever, it’s just so much easier when there’s, they’re all in one place.

I host an RSS reader on my website and it really is just set up to aggregate all of the news from different publications that have RSS feeds, but sometimes it gets overwhelming to have to sift through over 100 articles per day to find the ones that are relevant to me.

Well, I’m looking for ideas here, you guys. Are there more elegant ways to go about this?

If you have ideas, please share.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 day ago

    Lemmy/mastodon

    Listen to CBC radio every morning

    Visit CBC News site

    Read the economist

    And I’m experimenting with using AI to organize news for me (I wish RSS was still popular for this instead).

    • lodronsi@beehaw.org
      3·
      18 hours ago

      Pretty much all the major news outlets still publish to RSS. I use RSS for my news and was able to find feeds from my preferred news sources. I’m sure not all publish, but CBC does for sure.

  • Arkouda@lemmy.ca
    91·
    1 day ago

    Get your News directly from source, and get a subscription or donate to the ones you like who do good work so they can continue to do good work, before lack of funds completely destroys reputable journalism.

    If you want to be informed spend the time, money, and energy doing it properly instead of expecting someone else to do it for you. There are no shortcuts if you want to be educated on a topic.

    Oh wait… an “elegant way” to go about this that solves the problem of sifting through over 100 articles for relevancy…

    “Ctrl+F”

  • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    18 hours ago

    Link aggregators like Lemmy, Tiktok mostly and whatever new sources they mention. Here’s a bunch of the ones I follow.

    News\Analysis:

    Satire type content:

  • ElectricMoose@lemmy.world
    2·
    22 hours ago

    Some Lemmy, to get the hot takes and the latest Beaverton gossip.

    But I get most of the info from my local newspaper (which does a beautiful job of curating a mix of local and international news). With time, I got exhausted of how everything on social media is just polarized headlines and opinion pieces. When I went back to the old media, things felt more manageable, less about grabbing my attention, somewhat boring ; pretty nice overall.

    Local news orgs are struggling, so if you can afford subscribing they could use it. (while this is the season: many news subscriptions are tax-deductible; look it up)

  • Rav Sha'ul@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    23·
    16 hours ago

    Most news is filler content that has no impact on your life. Hearing about a tragedy 1000km away of people you did not know existed before the story and will be forgotten next month proves the story always was irrelevant.

    Tangible news generally, but not always, has a way of getting through all of the noise. If you want a healthy perspective, then mix in sources that go against your views and against your beliefs. People get messed up only listening to leftist sources and never anything on the right, and people get messed up only listen to ones on the right and never any left sources. Listening to how the other side of political views discuss something to prevent falling into invincible ignorance or unfalsifiable fallacy.