The hardest part is finding good sources, leaning slightly on either sides of the political spectrum. Then once you have that, I check if they have an RSS feed, and add that into an RSS reader. There are RSS reader apps that are running entirely locally (but must be left running to periodically gather new entries) and there are cloud-based RSS reader that will collect them for you, and keep your reading history in sync, etc.
Once you get that, you can see all the article’s titles, sorted the way you want without having an algorithm showing you what it thinks might generate clicks.
An RSS feed is like having someone email you a link everytime they publish something. So you can have a bunch of news outlets all in the same feed (or inbox in the analogy) and have one place for all the content.
I used to use them for research papers. Everytime a paper was published by a journal I had selected, it showed up in the feed.
There’s a choice of many other alternative search engines too, all with their own benefits, and all serving great search results. DDG is good if you care about privacy.
Has anyone tried googling news lately? You won’t find any Canadian news. I don’t really know how to search across all the sites without google.
The hardest part is finding good sources, leaning slightly on either sides of the political spectrum. Then once you have that, I check if they have an RSS feed, and add that into an RSS reader. There are RSS reader apps that are running entirely locally (but must be left running to periodically gather new entries) and there are cloud-based RSS reader that will collect them for you, and keep your reading history in sync, etc.
Once you get that, you can see all the article’s titles, sorted the way you want without having an algorithm showing you what it thinks might generate clicks.
I fancy myself fairly tech savvy. I managed to figure out this Lemmy thing, lol.
For whatever reason I’ve never really understood how an RSS thing works. I guess I’ve just never been compelled to figure it out.
My main point is that the kinds of people who were/are getting all their news from Meta probably couldn’t figure out RSS either.
Seems like a good idea though. I might have to finally dig in to it.
An RSS feed is like having someone email you a link everytime they publish something. So you can have a bunch of news outlets all in the same feed (or inbox in the analogy) and have one place for all the content.
I used to use them for research papers. Everytime a paper was published by a journal I had selected, it showed up in the feed.
@MacroCyclo @mp3 May I recommend https://duckduckgo.com
There’s a choice of many other alternative search engines too, all with their own benefits, and all serving great search results. DDG is good if you care about privacy.
Yep, looks like duckduckgo still has news!