What are the best sources of information on the Internet? (lemmy.world)

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Asklemmy has been a great place for information and resources. What are other some great resources everyone should know?

Kiwix is my recommendation. https://www.kiwix.org

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I don't recommend it to others because it's a fucking minefield, but once you know how to identify someone trustworthy, youtube becomes a top-tier source of sources.

Unfortunately it's mostly garbage, and you have to avoid a lot of the entertainment stuff or the algorithm will pick up on that and start giving you more "entertaining", unreliable youtubers and fewer good ones.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have the algorithm completely turned off because I lean FAR left but I was getting a lot of incredibly vapid, conservative, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Steven Crowder, Elon Musk hero worship, military hoo-ra pew pew pew! guns are cool, right guys!?!?!, defense contractor, anti-mask, grind culture, toxic masculinity BULLSHIT recommended to me.

Now, I get NOTHING recommended to me AT ALL other than the safest stuff from my subscriptions. I prefer it...but it's hard because it doesn't even track my watch history anymore unless I specifically add a video that I like to a playlist. It's easy to see how impressionable, smart young men can be propagandized into becoming anti-labor, card-carrying members of Y'all Qaeda, having this billionaire worship, utter horseshit shoved down their throats all day 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢.

IMO, it's going to cause the downfall of society, having these dangerous sociopaths enriched and amplified by social media algorithms.

edit: this comment motivated me to start a new community for Jordan Peterson debunking. 😅😅😅

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I didn’t know that you could turn off the algorithm?

[-] djc0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Given they way they linked directly to all the things they say they despise, my guess is you can’t turn the algorithm off and this is a troll post.

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