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Best news aggregator? Where do you get your news? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by zebus@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I used to use flipboard, then once I got hooked on Reddit I got lazy and just started getting all my news from there.

Since this place is still getting its start thought I might go back to one to supplement me. Where you guys get your news?

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[–] zebus@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I'm trying to get away from the political bias and echo chambering a singular news source gives you, but at same time like aggregators for being time efficient. That ground.news another person shouted out actually seems really interesting and to fit the bill. It gives you multiple viewpoints of each trending news story and labels what bias they are leaning.

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But they will still get to decide which news stories should be given prominence and if they are your only source, you will never know if they omit some less 'trendy' but important story. News publications do this as well, but if you follow enough of them with varying editorial leanings, it kind of fixes that issue. You could set up a RSS feed aggregator to achieve this as well I guess.

[–] zebus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True true, maybe I just need a good mixture in an rss, decent aggregator + my own curated primary news sources. Tbh the thing I like best about a good aggregator is it’s kinda like Reddit, occasionally you will get a great off the wall article from a a source you would of never of followed or had on your own rss. Such as a local news for somewhere you don’t even live.

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, there is nothing wrong in going through news aggregators. I just don't find it wise to use them as the only source of news or even the primary source, like many do.

And there is also the fact that the more influential news aggregators become, the more dependent news publishers (especially the small newsrooms who struggle with readership and revenue streams) will be to them. And since the popular ones are mostly run by big tech, that's not good anyway whatsoever.