TikTok for the initial what’s going on then various different reputable (the little I can find) news sites.
Yes I get news from tiktok because they don’t do as much propaganda bullshit other social media sites do lik blocking certain subjects because they don’t like it.
I don’t use tiktok. I thought it was just vertical videos of people doing stuff. How does it present news?
It is but a lot of times people find something out from places not the American news has, for instance people from other countries knowing things the American news don’t really say.
It has anything and everything it seems like, really good at finding others who are like me, very diverse and different kinda people on there. Yes bad people obviously, but that’s the Internet in general.
People talk about things on there. Give there personal opinions and thoughts on stuff.
That’s an interesting perspective - I hear that what’s bad about it is more the data tracking, but that it delivers on content so people like it. How does it compare to YouTube in terms of blocking content, do you happen to know?
I don’t really know that much about what YouTube blocks. All I know is I get a shit ton .ore lgbt and neurodivergent people on TikTok randomly then I ever do on YouTube. I get my diversity and different people. YouTube just seems like it’s all click bait shit I can’t handle. “Top ten ***” kinda stuff. And when I tried YouTube shorts I couldn’t find anything relatable or wanting. And they all seemed very just generic.
Sorry, I dunno where the word blocking came from in my reply - fat fingering I guess:-).
TikTok is well known for honing in on your preferences - which is both great and perhaps dangerous at the same time, be careful? Like Google, they may start charging money to get what you currently receive now for free.
That’s really odd that your YouTube is showing generic stuff - for most people it shows the same content, so you must be stopping their trackers somehow.:-)
At this point, lemmy and a group chat of terminally online friends from college
I’ve given up on national news post election. I used to read the Washington post as well as the daily ABC podcast. Post election its just a bummer. I will probably go back to keeping informed eventually but I’m not there yet.
I really don’t, anymore.
Maybe I’ll get hints of something from my contacts or my partner, but that’s indirect.
Lemmy, NPR, and occasionally CNN/AP/Reuters/whatever if I need to look something up I guess.
Mostly Lemmy and NPR.
