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the 24 hour news cycle has really seeped into every day life huh, and here i am letting it feed into my anxiety
how do you form a healthy relationship when every social media platform is flooded with it?
do i really just have to compulsively set up filters and intentionally limit my exposure to get away from it and make space for the lighthearted silly stuff?
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@cas I've got a self care filter on Mastodon to keep it light and happy.
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Ángela Stella Matutina
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Unfollow, silence or block "news" accounts and people who are hooked on the "news cycle". If I want poison I know where to get it, I don't need it delivered like if it was actually useful for me.
And yes, I think they're the enemy.
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LogicalErzor
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@cas i set up 4 lists: news, art, science, and tech
if anyone posts outside of the thing i’ve categorized them in, i usually skip past that post
since i still like to keep up to date with news, but dislike the onslaught of it, i made an rss feed of the wikipedia current events: @github.com.codebergisbetter.wikipedia.current.events.tree.main
that way i can get a good enough overview of what happened (delayed by 2 days but good enough)
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@cas substack writer's and subbing to their newsletter. Trust the author and you've hot some good people that condense knowledge in their own quirky way. Dork
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@cas Yes, I think filters are very useful. On Mastodon I'm filtering every keyword related to Artificial *** and it makes my timeline much more enjoyable.
Not sure if you're using any of the evil big tech platforms which are delibaretely built to make everyone feel miserable; of course one should filter those out of one's life completely. Most of even so-called quality media is not much better.
Just make sure you talk to actual people, maybe read some books to understand some topics in-depth (this works even for relatively recent topics) and the important stuff will still get through to you.
The important things are clear anyway, climate change is a terrible threat, Trump is a fascist, capitalism is bad for people, linux is better than windows, etc. No need to check everyday if something about these has changed.
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UltrasonicMadness (he/him)
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@cas Even in person, a lot of doom-mongering as soon as the smallest thing happens. I am very grateful that the Cold War ended before widespread internet access and social media started.
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Eskild Hustvedt
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@cas Filters are your friend. Ublock kan even be set up to block certain topics on news sites. Your mental health is more important than staying on top of the craziness-of-the-week.
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@cas I'm checking up on news twice a month and get most of what's useful/interesting, the rest i will hear anyway from casual conversations. Except for FLOSS for which mastodon still have a good signal-to-noise ratio. I'm guessing a 24h cycle would be 99% mental health impact for 1% meaningful data.
(also, my day job doesn't require me to be up to date with news, but I still think lowering the frequency is a good solution)
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