What do you all check instead of the news?

I've realized that I check the news several times a day but not because I'm curious about what's happening on the grand scheme of things, but because my brain wants to check something that keeps changing with new, evolving information. It fills a slightly different niche than social media, and I don't watch sports so I don't have that to check. Can anyone think of something else that could fill this need? I could read blogs but they just don't feel current. And the news is making be stress about information I didn't need to know.

Reddfugee42 ,

I hope you mean "as well as the news"

grandel ,

I get my "education" from Lemmy

ssm ,
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Hardware News: Louis Rossmann, GamersNexus

Other News: Lemmy (very heavily curated), Mastodon (rarely)

US Pol, Israel/Palestine, Ukraine/Russia: Blocked

son_named_bort ,

Huey Lewis

pip ,
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The mastodon feed I've painstakingly curated for myself

Coskii ,
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Inoreader for android. It's just a news links aggregator that you opt in various topics or networks and get fed a plethora of headlines and links to the articles. Sometimes they'll even grab a paragraph or two from the article. I started using that at the same time I hopped on Lemmy.

TehBamski ,
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If you want a summary of science events, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_science.

fiercekitten ,

This may not be the type of answer you are looking for, but personally I check on my friends and family. It helps me somewhat avoid overly browsing Lemmy. I'll send them a text asking how they are or what's new.

I tell my brain that this is a local and personalized news source. 🙃

dingdongitsabear ,

coupla blogs and lemmy subscribed ordered by top day; once I'm done with it, that's it, no doomscrolling no more. all news and sports are filtered out, along with memes and similar stupid shit.

if im really craving something, read a book (thanks Anna!), reinstall one of the cheap laptops I got, go for a run/walk/bike ride etc. works most of the time.

cRazi_man ,
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Don't bother with the 24 rolling news updates. It is much better to watch a video news summary a few days later. A really really good YouTube channel called TLDR news (they have a number of subchannels) that I would highly recommend.

The other thing is to use RSS...never news websites. RSS presents news chronologically. Websites curate to put absolute shit on their front-page so avoid that. If you use an RSS app like Pluma, then it lets you set a blacklist (like I've excluded news about Biden, Trump, Covid, vaccines, Israel, Ukraine, Superbowl, football, etc)... It really let's you exclude what you don't want to see and improve what shows up in your list.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

Metafilter!

Norbas ,

atrioc

BossDj ,

How about deep diving? It's not easy and consistent with one app, but it's pretty satisfying to be the one figuring stuff out.

Or local city planning. Future plans on what to build and where. Doesn't update as frequently, but it's something to circle back to on occasion, or you might want to get involved and go to a meeting.

Some people like to listen to police scanners, or alternatively there is usually someone with a social media account who posts just the most important or funniest transmissions from the city/county/whatever

Or you could get an idle game app that you occasionally need to pop into to collect money and upgrade.

Start day trading?

Hikermick ,

There's always the weather. I check that plus an app I have for the guages on our local rivers as I am a fly fisherman.

TonyTonyChopper ,

my Lemmy feed. Google Scholar sorted by most recent.

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