I have switched from Google News to Artifact. Feels like a better algorithm.
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wason@lemmy.ninja 1 year ago
Unpopular opinion but I switched from RSS to Google News and Reddit / Lemmy for basically 2 things:
I like the Google algorithm for news (guess that’s why it’s called that) it shows relevant news, especially local. When I subscribed to local news papers’ RSS, for example, they pump a lot of articles and the relevant news were difficult to spot. It still lags behind on tech news for instance.
I switched to Reddit because of the community content: conversations. On RSS you get all the news and all that but it lacks the social aspect, people discussing an article, learning from others. This is why I’m still here.
Maltruism@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 year ago
Artifact
Can you share any details about what you like about it? :)
wason@lemmy.ninja 1 year ago
Never heard of that one before but will definitely try. Thanks
delirium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kinda jealous tbh, I couldn’t get my Google news to actually work and it was 40% spam 40% clickbait 20% American news (and I live in Europe)
Lorela@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I only use Google Alerts and it’s absolute trash. You can set it to only give alerts for particular regions and it’s constantly giving me hits from India, USA, and Australia (I’m also in Europe!).
wason@lemmy.ninja 1 year ago
Yes, still get my share of spam, especially on politics, but other than that it works ok.
fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
There’s some good RSS feeds that break up into the content and comments. I love those because they remind me of Reddit and Lemmy. I think hackernews / ycombinator
freeman@lemmy.pub 1 year ago
I use RSS for news mostly. And Reddit for conversation. And Reddit has been phased out for lemmy.
That said, lemmy is still not populated quite enough for some of the more topic specific stuff. For example there’s gaming, but not game specific communities etc. I wish it had a bigger following.
Lately I have found the news discussions here as toxic if not more toxic than Reddit. I’ve just resolved to not discussing news unless it’s with friends over beers Reddit just doesn’t have a mobile app so f it.
wason@lemmy.ninja 1 year ago
Yes, I like RSS for tech news but I still prefer to read a discussion on it.