Okay but like, if I browse Lemmy every morning and regularly read linked articles, am I getting my news from social media or digital news sites?
Both. Lemmy’s news is heavily filtered. I don’t just mean sources; I mean topics altogether. Not to say there’s some pure, magical way to have some fantasy “truly balanced” news transmitted into your brain, but social media compared to, say, a curated RSS feed with a breadth of sources is vastly different and to me would absolutely count as getting your news on social media and (if, as you do, you read the articles) from digital news.
Both. Lemmy’s news is heavily filtered. I don’t just mean sources; I mean topics altogether. Not to say there’s some pure, magical way to have some fantasy “truly balanced” news transmitted into your brain, but social media compared to, say, a curated RSS feed with a breadth of sources is vastly different and to me would absolutely count as getting your news on social media and (if, as you do, you read the articles) from digital news.