this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2024
168 points (79.4% liked)

Asklemmy

43894 readers
939 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
168
Are we all fucked? (lemm.ee)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
174 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I'm worried for the world. All I've been thinking about is WW3 and this shit makes me want to vomit. I can't even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack. I feel unmotivated. I wake up and immediately just want to go back to bed. I'm not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight. Can we just have one day of fucking peace? Can everyone just stop for one day and enjoy one day of peace?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 211 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Do yourself a favor and disconnect from news feeds, notifications and social media for 2 weeks and see how you feel.

Edit: also take a break from Lemmy. I swear I think the doomsaying here is worse than Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Damn. I thought it was me, but scrolling through Everything & Top Day is just filled with rage bait and doom news. I rarely find something uplifting. And I usually find myself more anxious after reading through them.

I really want Lemmy to thrive, that's why I am here, but I used to be able to filter all that shit in reddit and still have a bunch of funny dumb simple happy posts. If I do that here I get no posts back..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you ever find a good solution for filtering out those posts, please update us.

I tend to only view my subscribed community feed, but it would be nice to look at “All” to find new communities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's definitely not a complete nor perfect solution, but I've noticed that a number of accounts disproportionately post very negative news links. I've started blocking some of those users. It helps break it up a bit. I'm sure I'm missing some news now, but there's only so many times I can see posts about the world burning up or genocide before browsing lemmy becomes stressful and nihilistic.

So if I see the same negative news story on multiple communities, I'll click on the user and if they're blasting negative stories everywhere I just block them. For example, I just blocked [email protected], not because of any harassment or anything, it's just that they almost exclusively post political and climate doomsday stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Block all politics communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I block communities as I come across them but I feel like I might be missing out on a few.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I block all news and politics communities. Also if Elon started rumbling again about annoying things I block the words Elon, musk and Elon musk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Beehaw

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Yep. To expand on this if people still want to use social media, here’s what helped me. The constant doom scrolling is unhealthy and unhelpful.

  1. Block or mute news/doomsday communities/people on social media. Link aggregators and algorithm-driven social media just sucks for news across the board. Use Lemmy (or Reddit, etc) for memes, interesting discussions, cool pictures, whatever, but not news.

  2. Collect a list of news sources you trust and add them to an RSS reader. Ideally in a separate folder from other feeds so you can easily filter them out when you aren’t interested in world news. You only get one “post” per article, rather than seeing the same “everything sucks now” article reposted to 20 different communities, and it’s buried in good ol’ boring news. Everything is less exciting in this format, it’s great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Amen. OP, I promise the news still finds a way in, even if you swear it off. You won't be able to escape it completely, but shutting it out by choice makes a huge and positive impact. You don't need to be constantly pummeled with every bad thing that happens every day in order to still be plugged-in to what's going on in the world.