FYI for when you cross post from Mastodon to Lemmy, the first line of your toot becomes the title of the post that appears in people’s feeds. You shouldn’t put the @ or a link in that line because the markdown goes in raw and it looks like ass.
It’s actually a lot better to just go to the news sites. The algorithms basically only feed you the most outrageous of news, you really miss out on getting decent local news and those smaller stories that aren’t rage bait.
Side note: I’m actually really disappointed in Apple News too as most of the stories are still ragebait with the titles truncated too short and you pay but get ads and still get only a limited set of news stories from any source.