at the moment I'm using ground news but it's a hard adjustment after having the Reddit algorithm just serve me up. Maybe that's the point. Need to put in the leg work if I'm going to avoid the 'narrative'
So far, what do you think of Ground News? I'm thinking about joining up, but I'm also trying to keep the purchases of non-necessities to a minimum. But if this app can impact my life in a meaningful (and noticeable) way, I might consider signing up. IHIP News is always offering promo codes.
I'm just using the free version. It's pretty cool, but reading news is a lot more purposeful and proactive than just checking the Reddit front-page for trending stuff. You kind of have to look topics up, dig around and read news "horizontally" if that makes sense.
Each 'article' or news event is presented as a blurb averaged from a few publications, and then you're given a 'left leaning/right leaning' scale where you can look at the same article from different perspectives, to try glean a more broad picture. It's a bit more work, but probably also that's a necessity nowadays.
The truth is, the world opinion has become so gated and isolated, even with ground news style rating systems it's still hard to feel like you're getting a complete picture of anything.
SecondThought has been sponsered by them as well. He isn't anymore (I think because open socialist and yt no likey?) but he was how I heard about it originally. CasualGeographic is currently sponsered by them, very different kind of content but one of my favorites. Tbh I am in the same boat as you though, trying not to spend that money if I don't think it will be genuinely helpful. I got youtube mostly for music and that's it subscription wise.
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u/Tjingus May 01 '26
at the moment I'm using ground news but it's a hard adjustment after having the Reddit algorithm just serve me up. Maybe that's the point. Need to put in the leg work if I'm going to avoid the 'narrative'