How do people find good information on the internet these days?

catch22@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.world – 664 points –

It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

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What do you recommend for an RSS app?

iOS & MacOS recommendation Free: NetNewsWire Paid: Reeder 5 (one time payment)

I use NetNewsWire (on iOS) and swear by it. Super simple and easy to use.

The developer has an intensely focused vision for simplicity that I love and think is pretty wise too.

I've been using Nunti (FOSS, Android only) for a few months now. I love it's adaptive learning feature which does a good job of filtering articles that I don't care about.

Do you happen to know how long it may take the "adaptive learning" feature to kick in? I gather it may take some extended usage, however if that feature does seem to work I may have to reconsider Nunti, as I was initially put off by the absence of some other features when last I looked at it.

You can access it after you like/dislike 50 articles

Thanks! I must've missed or forgot that since I only briefly looked into it (and looking with a different feature in mind).

Search for open source rss feed readers. There are a few good ones.

I’ve just recently found iOS app “feeeed”