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?

  • lady_mongrel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I use feeder on android and have an RSS feed with news sources. You have to find them first and then see of they have and RSS feed.

    Also you can make an RSS feed from mastodon if they toot their stories or use nitter to transform their twitter to a feed.

    • kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I have seen mentioned Feeder a lot as of lately, I have been using Feedly since all the Google RSS BS (heh, sounds familiar doesn’t it?) And never looked for everything else (then came Reddit, then Lemmy lol) I never got rid of Feedly though, I tried othes like Flipboard but that one never catched my eye.

      What would Feeder provide me that Feedly does not?

      • sylverstreamEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I use FeedMe and connect to Feedly. That way I can add unlimited categories, Feedly only allows 3 on the free plan. Works like a charm.

        • kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thanks for the heads-up, although I’m not entirely sure what you mean by categories…

          I remember I created my folders in Feedly as topics and put all the related sources there 😅