That’s a problem. I used to get news almost immediately from Reddit. Now I am a bit stuck on that front and so far there is no reasonable alternative.
For example, I like to follow chess news. I stumbled upon a piece of news on the wider internet that Hans Nieman and Magnus Carlsen had resolved their dispute. It wasn’t very much reported on, so I checked old.reddit/r/chess to see what’s going on. The first detailed thread on the matter had been opened and active, like, 5 minutes after the announcement.
At this point, nothing on the internet can compete with this.
It is kind of the same with world news and Ukraine war coverage.
So, yeah. After getting off of Reddit, I have lost the ability to be quickly informed about news. Mastodon is not much help and I don’t want to fuel Elon Twitter’s BS, so I am stuck.