If it weren’t for twitter, i wouldn’t have even known there was another attempt on Trump. I don’t sort Lemmy by new and there was nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened. None of the other social media sites I use showed anything for a while either.
What did you gain by knowing unconfirmed information a few hours earlier? Did you need to act on that “information” that quickly?
“Don’t believe initial reporting about any dramatic event. The rush to be first often overrides the responsibility to try to be correct. As with any event like this, some of this information is likely to change as more information becomes available.”
https://youtu.be/sgpYzFTtJug?feature=shared
In any case, I heard about the attempt shortly after I started scrolling through lemmy last night, so from my pov the information had gotten to me in a timely manner.
You might consider reading some real news, vetted and produced by professional journalists. Twitter is not news source, neither is Reddit.
nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened.
in other words, since it can be assumed that you’re checking multiple social medias often enough for “HOURS” to make such a huge difference, then basically your life is driven by FOMO, and you see no problem with that.
kudos for the honesty at least. you do you and keep supporting that nazi safespace
Pretty glad that all of these responses are assumptions about my character just because I somehow managed to not see that someone tried to merc trump again for the whole day.
Its so funny that lemmy thinks its better than reddit with all these reddit ass responses.
You could simply open a news site a couple times a day. They all had the assassination attempt up pretty quickly.
I didn’t know it happened. Why would I have thought to go looking for something I don’t know about?
I didn’t know it happened either, but I check the news a couple times a day to see if anything happened.
It seems like you’re being disingenuous. You said you need Twitter to find out about things like the assassination attempt, so obviously you check Twitter, but the concept of checking the news is apparently strange to you.