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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Doomscrolling bad news is really bad for your health. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/what-is-doomscrolling-and-why-is-it-bad-for-us/143139/

Bad news is also literally addictive and it is important to break that habit https://www.fastcompany.com/90269566/how-to-stop-your-brains-addiction-to-bad-news

I'd suggest subscribing to some of the more positive news threads on Lemmy. I ended up blocking those ones that only seem to post negative stuff. The world is a bad enough place as it is without Lemmy ramming it down my throat to. I'd also suggest regularly visiting other positive news sites to remind yourself that there is good news happening, you just don't hear about it from the normal places. Certainly helps put things into perspective. https://www.groovnow.com/blog/where-to-find-good-news-online

It's important to try and stay happy, friend, now more than ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for reminding - that is a good point. Do you have any good mood communities here on Lemmy to recommend?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure! There's [email protected], lemmybewholesome@lemmyworld, [email protected] and [email protected]. They're all small communities, but they're worth checking out. I'd recommend those news sites on that link I listed to. Definitely eye opening to see all the good stuff that is just ignored by the mainstream media. Stay positive out there, friend! 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much! I sincerely appreciate your suggestions and have already subscribed to the communities. I actually have already noticed lemmybewholesome, but I havent known there were the other ones as well, so thank you a lot for the information :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Doomscrolling being bad is literally implied in the name.