Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I use RSS now for news.

Its been so liberating. I can read offline, save articles for later, no ads or paywalls, no algorithms, no bullshit.

I highly recommend.

[–] ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been doing the same. The issue is finding high quality feeds with full articles. Most are just a snippet of the article with a link saying "read the full story at..." (The Verge, PBS, The Guardian). Others are even worse and just link directly to the shit-laden website (Ars Technica). The best quality news feeds I've found are Techdirt and The Intercept. Would you care to share some good RSS news feeds you've found?

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

So for those style websites, FreshRSS (my server)/and CabyReader (my client) offer options to parse the linked article for content.

They mostly get the full article without tinkering but other sites I use css selectors to get the article section of the website.

Then I press the "parse" button if the article is just a summary and it'll get the whole article.

That said, I do put more emphasis on following individuals rather than large sites like those you mentioned. So I have a couple dozen individual blogs followed, but also a handful of sites like NewScientist, BigThink, AndroidPolice, TinyBuddha, VICE

[–] ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Okay, that's very cool. I'm into self-hosting and will look into running FreshRSS to parse sites and feed me articles. Much appreciated!

[–] JillSteinsPuckeredAnus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

what's your favourite rss aggravator?

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's an RSS?

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 23 hours ago

It stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's basically a subscriber feed of websites - you choose a website to get updates about and the aggregator will keep an ear out for updates.

I mostly use it for webcomics.