I am starting to realize I used Twitter for news. For the first time in weeks, I actually had to hear about some current event by word of mouth, and then had to Google it. Are there any good town criers to follow on nostr?
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This is, sadly, one of the reasons Iโm still keeping a loose reach on my Twitter account until Elon gets around to permayeeting me. Still need my global news fix that is not sated here.
Basically going to reply-guy Elon myself into oblivion there.
Repost the news fren. Leverage your twitter transgressions for the good of all nostr.
#[2]โ posts regularly. Iโm interested in others also. I donโt want to pigeonhole myself, if I can help it.
Zero Hedge is too much doom porn for me. Everything is a sign of immanent bug-out systemic collapse.
Zerohedge appears to be reposting here
stacker.news
same - really easy to get a very quick idea of what happenings have gone on through twitter
not quite the speed and quality on here yet (or itโs not surfaced easily)
i suggested this ages ago, but you should be able to group relays together like lists on twitter, and scroll your feed ONLY seeing posts from the specific relays you defined on the list
then, you could have a list of high quality paid relays that are all about delivering news quickly - and group them altogether on a list
thatโs my vision for the future
This is a problem that I anticipated. I'm going old school. I'm self hosting Tiny Tiny RSS. I follow No BS Bitcoin and CNBC to get main steam current events.
You lose out on some of the analysis you would get on Twitter but I've been able to live with it.
CNBC? haha
Hehe
Since Nitter doesn't have follow feature and RSS feeds are a pain, and doesn't give me the same timeline experience, I've resorted to create a lurker account on twitter, unrelated to this nym. Sorry but not sorry. I won't post anything though, and it's specifically made for news information gathering from some high signal accounts.
I'm not following any bitcoiners there, as I consider that I am getting better bitcoin signal here, filtered by nostriches, and not the bullshit and fear spread by influencers. No stupid price predictions or other bitcoin fud. Ignorance is bliss.
The moment someone creates a nitter fork where you can follow accounts locally (and works at scale. ie. works by following hundreds of people) I will consider shutting the lurker account down.
Somewhat neutral-ish and business related. I can't think of a better corporate media outlet to follow for trying to keep up with business headlines. I would consider alternatives if anyone has suggestions.
By the way, just because I want to see the corporate media headlines, that doesn't mean I believe all of them!
One awesome feature with RSS. I can follow GitHub projects and see when there is a new release. Now I'm aware when Amethyst has a new tagged release 3 times a day!