I want to read this in Marvin's voice from HHTTG

One thing I see a lot is the same event repackaged repeatedly with various headlines from different angles to elicit despair and outrage. If you heard about it once already, that is probably enough.

Spending an hour a day reading news from reputable sources is a lot healthier than doomscrolling questionable content for 8 hours on Reddit and Instagram.

It means that you are not in control of any of it. You can't impact any of it meaningfully as a single force, at least in real time. People used to watch a "news hour" once a day. You could artificially recreate that, and then detatch for the other 23 hours using self control, muted phone notifications and browser filter extensions. And maybe your brain will thank you.

Of course you could have a separate rule for local alerts that may be more relevant, but local news is dying unfortunately, soo..... You could probably just check in once a week to see how the surviving local paper verbatim reprints favorable press releases from the city's PR person that they retain from the local municipal consultant group with a forgettable acronym.

What is the question here? You take kids to do your work?! Die! You even just slightly have sexual dreams about kids?! Die twice! Kids must be protected and sadly that doesn't happen as much as you think. Anyhow.

It's literally written down as part of the playbook.

One of the reasons I LOATHE advertising. They are legitimately overstimulating all of society and manipulating their thoughts at the same time. They are in actual fact, driving the world into literal psychosis. These people are beyond evil.

The environment we have created is so fast-paced and complex that our brains are often in a constant state of overwhelm. We were never meant to be always available, always aware of everything and always caught in the belief that we have to react to everything at a time.

I remember coming back from a long backpacking trip, totally disconnected from the media. When I got back I couldn't stand TV, especially commercials, for a while.

Honestly it's true with just the first 5 words.

You might take some of the time you're doomscrolling and read a silly book. Not a lot, like 30 mins.

When you finally decide to leave reddit, remember to make some posts or comments inviting people to join lemmy

I feel the opposite, my feed is almost entirely people describing how the world is falling apart, how communism is good but not that communism, and Linux

The gaming communities here are somehow even more miserable than reddit. I need different hobbies clearly.

I agree with you, but I also agree with people commenting. I think reddit and the other corporate social media have really got their algorithms tweaked in such a way to keep you addicted to scrolling their apps. And the addictive stimulation of doom scrolling part makes Lemmy better. But I also agree with the other posters. To paraphrase someone much smarter and funnier than me reality has a real downer bias to it lately.

I block the worst offenders from news feeds. Helps a lot.

News apps are the worst because the algorithms will shove more of the same articles at you. "You liked a financial article? Ok, here are 50 more that are virtually identical." Then there is the constant click-bait. It has gotten to the point where I skip any dramatic or open ended headline because I know it is actually nothing.

• most of it doesn't affect you directly
• you have almost no direct input on major world or regional events which become headline news

Shit's happening in the world. You can do nothing to stop it from happening. This is in stark contrast to everything else going on in your life.

"The human mind has not adapted to this level of bad news"

Your brain is one of the most artificial things in existence. How many years did you spend in formal education in one form or another? What is education other than a way of shaping a mind to a certain form?

We must leave behind the fiction that a God created us. There is no God, we have no souls.

I've been doing the same. The issue is finding high quality feeds with full articles. Most are just a snippet of the article with a link saying "read the full story at..." (The Verge, PBS, The Guardian). Others are even worse and just link directly to the shit-laden website (Ars Technica). The best quality news feeds I've found are Techdirt and The Intercept. Would you care to share some good RSS news feeds you've found?

what's your favourite rss aggravator?

What's an RSS?

Figure of speech. Perhaps "optimized" would be more accurate?

Iteratively designed by evolution to maximize survival, I guess

Ok