What is the best way too keep up without using Reddit and Twitter?
I'm fascinated by what is happening in the world of LLMs and multi-modal models but it seems like you have to he permanently glued to reddit and twitter to follow along. But I have promised myself to cut down on my online time and reddit and twitter were the first to be blocked.
What is a better way to keep up?
I would use RSS to aggregate the different sources I care about. You can use the unnoficial HN RSS feed to stay on-top of certain LLM keywords, and try to scrape together different reliable source websites that have Atom/RSS feeds.
The end-result is a portable list of data feeds, stored in one OPML file and portable across different apps. Your mileage may vary, but this works great for me.
I never used Reddit and in ~15y on Twitter barely used it, I still keep up with RSS for major stuff, rest is just a hype bandwagons.
When I paid attention to CNN's in the 90s I used mostly email mailing lists. I have other interests now, but still use email lists. But I'm not sure what to tell you about finding good email lists about LLMs. I'm more on the academic side so meet people at conferences (who tell me about email lists.) That may not be your reality...
Maybe just time box it to once a week or month, where you go on Reddit and Twitter to look for updates. I know on Reddit you can sort by top in different ranges. Don't know about Twitter.