How To Stay Up To Date On The Internet?

I realize this may sound a bit stupid considering it's the Internet; there's information everywhere. That being said, over on Reddit I used Third Party Apps like Apollo and Pager to stay up to date on certain things (Apple OS updates, Windows OS updates, Nvidia Driver updates, etc) where they would send me alerts when new updates were released, and now with Reddit shutting down these Apps I'm a bit lost on how to continue staying up to date, that is without manually refreshing official sites and waiting for a new update to release. Now, yeah, I probably could just follow Twitter accounts, but Twitter is a shithole.

Thorny_Thicket,

It's actually quite difficult to avoid hearing about important events even if you tried. You're not obligated to be up-to-date about everything that's going on. You can't. You're always missing stuff. Most of the information on the internet called "news" is just junk anyways and you're probably better off not filling your mind with it.

Don't want to tell anyone how to live their lives but just my two cents.

Jagermo,

Sumi.news is a decent aggregator, I think

slug,

RSS, basically. for software with github releases, there's an RSS feed for release feeds by appending .atom to the releases page, like https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases.atom

check out nitter.net for twitter RSS, has been going strong through API changes. also since you mentioned Apple stuff, it's not per small update but they publish major stuff on the Newsroom feed which has an RSS feed: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/rss-feed.rss

also you might like https://www.techmeme.com/ as a high-volume aggregator.

ClarkZuckerberg,

Yep RSS is the bomb and still the optimal way to stay in-the-know on whatever you’re interested in.

hbar,

I use a mix of RSS feeds and the Feeder Android app to accumulate articles. I'm still tweaking my list of feeds, currently using Ars Technica, MIT news (ai), slashdot, bbc, npr, and some niche ones

slug,

how do you consume ars, bbc, npr etc. without being overwhelmed by volume? i use freshrss for my main, curated feeds where i always 0 out the read count and fraidycat for high volume news feeds but i wish there was another solution that would mix and present the feeds in a more interesting way.

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