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What’s wild is that YouTube has become the most positive place for me on the internet lately. The algorithm is so tightly curated towards my interests in music, technology, arts, etc… I don’t allow anything but topics related to my hobbies to exist on my algorithm. It’s truly awesome to know that Youtube has the capacity for greatness if you engage with the algorithm curation tools and stop engaging with content you don’t want to see.
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i’m reducing my daily news consumption with the goal of zero. i know that it’s going to be bad, and if it directly impacts me, then a) i’ll find out soon enough; and b) the probability i can do a damn thing about it is basically 0 anyway
Yep. My 2025 resolution is to be as uninformed as I can possibly be. My mental health can’t handle it and I stress out and obsess over things that I can’t fix.
15 years of being informed did fuck all for me. I’ll go vote when it’s time (where I will do a minimum of research on my vote), but otherwise my goal is to entirely ignore all politics and political figures for at least the entire year, but hopefully longer than that.
If there ever comes a time where I can actually make a difference, I’m sure it’ll be obvious and widely spread. All the outrage, pointless and ineffective protests and ‘awareness’ campaigns were utterly worthless. The last 10 times I called my local rep they laughed at me for being from the opposite party and told me to go pound sand.
I do not have the capacity, competency or mindset to run for politics myself, so as far as I’m concerned there’s nothing of value added by being informed and involved.
Once a week sounds like a reasonable plan. Can’t have it constantly.
Yeah, I wouldn’t mind a newsletter once a month with about 5 bullet points summarizing the most important events.
Same. It’s like, I don’t want to read the news because it depresses and enrages me, but I don’t want to be caught off guard when Big Brother comes for anyone who criticizes Dear Leader.
Don’t worry, as the Internet is forever, you’ve already criticised dear leader. We just have to hope they don’t get into power.
Thanks for the reminder. See you all in March.
Step one is being qualified to recognize the difference between being informed and being cynical.
Yup. I made myself an alt account with heavy filters (and new ones being added whenever something shows up I can’t deal with) for when I just can’t handle the brunt of reality.
Mental health frog is still pretty beaten up, though.
Yeah. Planning on a news blackout of 4 years. Doing just local news and events. This last presidential campaign destroyed my mental health along with my faith in humanity and decency. It was already unstable from W and first T pres.
I’ve got things blocked on Lemmy (primarily anything with Trump, Elon, Musk, or RFK in the title) but stuff still gets through occasionally. And just the stuff that gets through the cracks is depressing. I’m not gonna last four years.
I check the news once or twice a week. It’s often enough to stay informed but I also have time to recover. Once a day is too much. More than once was awful.
You are right to be concerned, negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf
Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html
And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367
But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news
So it’s important to try and stay positive:
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news
If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:
- https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
- https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
- https://fixthenews.com/
- https://positivenewsfoundation.org/
- https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/
And here’s 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/
Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:
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- https://lemmy.world/c/hopeposting
- https://lemmy.world/c/worldinprogress
- https://lemmy.world/c/climatehope
Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or ‘burying your head in the sand’: https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/
https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism
And doesn’t mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling
https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/
I don’t see the issue, you can choose to be outraged by everything all the time
Or not
The issue is we aren’t being informed, we are being bludgeoned with ragebait “opinions as news” and “news as content” in competition with unlimited streaming subscription services as entertainment.
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My mental heath can’t even keep up with being poorly informed anymore. I can’t seem to check out like I want to, but I think I might as well. We all know where this is going.
I think my problem, as I’ve come to understand it, is not only that I want to be well informed so much as I’m also trying to “square the circle.” I’m trying to make sense of things that are happening in the world that don’t make sense.
