I think you’re describing an important step of online mental hygiene. The reality is that humans have not evolved with the daily emotional bandwidth necessary for one to handle a planet’s worth of grief responsibly and without inuring oneself to others’ suffering.
I’ve seen people criticize this as head-in-sand, that you should remain available to amplify voices and causes in online discourse (especially theirs). I see that criticism as unthoughtful, bordering on unkind, and a critical problem with how we do online advocacy.
(Aside: “conflict” appears twice in keyword list, which has no effect now but can cause unexpected behavior later)
I’ve experienced that criticism. To that I say I already know where I stand on these political issues and I’ll amplify (and have amplified) voices I want amplified. Regardless of how much I filter out, the dust on the upper crust of world news still makes its way to me in some way or another so I’ll always have a general idea of what’s going on. I just don’t need to know every tiny detail about the trillionth example of the dregs of human nature.
Living out from under that black cloud is truly liberating and I highly recommend anyone reading this to establish a filter list and block any communities that regularly kill your mood.
To give you a minor update, you’re gonna need to add ‘nuke’ and ‘nuclear’ to your blocklist… as well as ‘housing crash’, ‘housing values’ and ‘prices’ and ‘debt’ and ‘default’.
Add in those words and you’ll remain blissfully ignorant for at least another couple months.
I did the same and would absolutely recommend this.
Don’t look for news on social media (best to not be on social media if that’s possible). Get news and content via RSS and get an app that allows you to blacklist keywords.
What device are you going to use it on? I’ll presume Android is most likely.
Best app for FOSS in my opinion is Read You (on f-droid), but this doesnt allow blacklisting words.
Best for easy setup + setting up filters is Pluma (free on Play store). Once you’re in it, you press + to add content and can search for whatever you want.
Most sites support RSS and if you candidate find it from within the app then you can go get the RSS link from the webpage… But if you’re just getting into it then try what I’ve suggested above first and take it from there.
I purged world news from my feeds years ago. I have no idea what’s going and I love it.
Here’s my filter list if you want it:
There’s really not much that slips by this list in tandem with my community block list. Life on the internet is much more peaceful now.
I think you’re describing an important step of online mental hygiene. The reality is that humans have not evolved with the daily emotional bandwidth necessary for one to handle a planet’s worth of grief responsibly and without inuring oneself to others’ suffering.
I’ve seen people criticize this as head-in-sand, that you should remain available to amplify voices and causes in online discourse (especially theirs). I see that criticism as unthoughtful, bordering on unkind, and a critical problem with how we do online advocacy.
(Aside: “conflict” appears twice in keyword list, which has no effect now but can cause unexpected behavior later)
I’ve experienced that criticism. To that I say I already know where I stand on these political issues and I’ll amplify (and have amplified) voices I want amplified. Regardless of how much I filter out, the dust on the upper crust of world news still makes its way to me in some way or another so I’ll always have a general idea of what’s going on. I just don’t need to know every tiny detail about the trillionth example of the dregs of human nature.
Living out from under that black cloud is truly liberating and I highly recommend anyone reading this to establish a filter list and block any communities that regularly kill your mood.
To give you a minor update, you’re gonna need to add ‘nuke’ and ‘nuclear’ to your blocklist… as well as ‘housing crash’, ‘housing values’ and ‘prices’ and ‘debt’ and ‘default’.
Add in those words and you’ll remain blissfully ignorant for at least another couple months.
I would but then there is nothing to read when I open Lemmy 5min after I close it. Need that hit.
Exactly! Without the news, what am I supposed to do, look at cute cat and dog memes all day? Uh, no, there are only a finite amount of those on lemmy…
You gotta hit that “/all top 6 hours” feed
Its not a bad thing to close lemmy 5 mins after you open it. There’s a whole world outside of the internet.
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I did the same and would absolutely recommend this.
Don’t look for news on social media (best to not be on social media if that’s possible). Get news and content via RSS and get an app that allows you to blacklist keywords.
Got any suggestions on how to set that up? I’ve known about RSS for a long time, I just never really understood it, I guess.
What device are you going to use it on? I’ll presume Android is most likely.
Best app for FOSS in my opinion is Read You (on f-droid), but this doesnt allow blacklisting words.
Best for easy setup + setting up filters is Pluma (free on Play store). Once you’re in it, you press + to add content and can search for whatever you want.
Most sites support RSS and if you candidate find it from within the app then you can go get the RSS link from the webpage… But if you’re just getting into it then try what I’ve suggested above first and take it from there.
Android for sure. Thanks for the info.
Unfortunately I do need to read the news incase certain things happen
Yep, influencers want you constantly connected to the doom-sayers.
At one time getting the weekly newspaper was sufficient.
Then CNN happened with cable.
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