[testfrequency]

This bums me out. Artifact was actually enjoyable to use, and the social commenting on news often had very sane and normal commentary to it.

Anyone know any good alternatives? I tried Ground News at launch and found it far too chaotic though I like the novelty of the unbiased model

[spdif899]

I spent an hour yesterday after this announcement installing and trying out various options. Feedly and Inoreader seem the most promising, in terms of having good interface and dark mode with no ads in articles.

Both seem to require way too much effort to get a good feed together, though, and neither has artifact's killer AI clickbait replacement feature.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

HackerNews is the only lightweight news site I’ve found that remotely scratches that “sane commentary” itch for me. I wish there were alternatives for more local events or even world news. I can’t watch any mainstream media these days which tends to lean heavily into pitting people against each other with dehumanizing vitriol and force-fed host opinions.