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How do people find good information on the internet these days? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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] 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

What do you recommend for an RSS app?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I could use android and desktop Linux recomendations too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Inoreader RSS app for Android.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can access it after you like/dislike 50 articles