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How do you get up to speed with world events?

13 points by rockbruno ↗ HN
Now that Apollo is dead, I have no good reason to use Reddit anymore. But as much as I despised the website itself, I've always found /r/all to be a pretty good aggregator for important international/world news and for any sort of general piece of information that most people would find interesting.

I'm trying to find replacements for this. My partner uses the major news sources' official apps, but I'm not sure if that's the best option for me. What do you personally use to get notified of these categories of news?

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shyn3
Go out and talk to people instead of the internet bubble. 90% of the comments on Reddit are ai bots anyways
eimrine
A recipe for getting inside a local bubble (I mean biases like a local religion/propaganda and local view on a world events if at least being acknowledged of them).
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gregjor
Personally I don't waste time keeping up with the news, but you must know that thousands of news sites and news aggregator sites exist. Take your pick. If anything important happens every news site will report it.

The last thing I want is notifications of news, but many/most sites will gladly do that in exchange for your email address or phone number.

32gbsd
Keeping up with world events is a waste of time. Most of it is propaganda and advertising. Best thing to to is read one news paper/site and spend the rest of the time working on your personal interests
eva_cananim
I don't. I mostly stopped actively choosing to watch, listen to or read mainstream news many years ago.

Long ago I concluded that mainstream media news is almost entirely negative, I have no control over any of the events that are going on about and I don't need to, or won't, behave differently in response to any of it.

I don't need that negativity in my life. I hate the over dramatisation on television. I'm irritated by the frequent deception by omission. I don't want to get sucked into spending many hours watching 24hour TV news repeat the same story over and over.

If there is an approaching hurricane or a global pandemic then usually I will hear someone mention it in the pub.

The pub sometimes has a TV on silent showing 24hour news with subtitles or I come across a newspaper. That is enough for me.

I want to read about peoples personal projects, personal successes, their home grown vegetables and bike rides. I want tech news about an arduino board with a faster cpu.

But you do you, you can use your life as you wish.

xp84
Absolutely concur here. So-called “news” is so heavily selected for outrage generation and/or clickbait potential that I avoid it completely. With the exceptions of Bloomberg for financial and business news to help me with investing choices. Everything else—I mean, even if my country were going to war, my perspective is irrelevant since i won’t be consulted for my opinion anyway. It all falls into the category of things I can likely do nothing about anyway, so why increase my blood pressure reading or thinking about it?
hombre_fatal
Consider whether you’re staying on top of world events or if that’s just how you justify doomscrolling Reddit and social media for half the day getting dopamine hits for scavenging for a high info diet of no actual use to you.

Because you already know that you can check into a news website a few times per week if that’s truly all you wanted, but you might want someone to validate your high info diet and find you a new useless addiction. ;)

elnatro
Is it worth it to be updated on world events? I mean, what do you get from “being informed”? At what level would you say you have to be informed: country? Continent? Culture?
electroagenda
You are now in a perfect position to try a different strategy. Don't try to read or find any news at all... And just try to get informed by your partner. It can be a great filter and you didn't know it!
KomoD
omni.se and sometimes wikipedia
achempion
The Wikipedia has "In the news" section