With the escalation in Gaza and West Bank on top of the incident I’m going to limit how much I spend on telegram, lemmy, etc. because I can get massively hyperfocussed on this shit. Feels a lot like when the Ukraine Russia war heated up and I was stuck to my phone 8 hours a day.
I’m lucky enough to have started my meds recently which are absolutely eviscerating my anxiety, but others aren’t so lucky.
Maybe delete a couple of apps and limit your exposure for a couple of days so even if you DO doomscroll it’s less paralysing.
The new world struggles to be born ❤️
Try making an RSS feed and sticking to offbeat or informative sources (avoid AFP, AP, Reuters, Western mainstream media as a whole, or reactionary media anywhere, whatever they say which is actually important will be repeated elsewhere). I can imagine why Telegram and Lemmy would bother you, as many people get invested in a particular interpretation or prediction. This makes it a lot more stressful to figure out what’s going on.
I definitely want to get one at some point and integrate it into my home server. I’ll give it a look :)
Yeah self-hosting stuff like RSSHub is the best way. If you want a quick solution the demo of this works up to 1,000 feeds. https://www.commafeed.com/ Which of course, nobody would ever reach, so don’t ask how I know.
Instead of doomscrolling, try doom RSSing (rss at the very bottom of the page)
Appreciated!
I really have to warn, it is not what you want to keep up with if you are trying not to doom. It is an aggregator of news from humanitarian organizations, it is just constant news of hunger, displacement, death and such.
I already have a folder for this variety of news. 👀 Yeah, it needs containment, more to escape the focus applied by humanitarian orgs than freaking out. You do want to make sure you have an idea what you’re looking for e.g. searching a particular country’s name.
Yup.
Tip for reliefweb specifically: You can filter based on a bunch of stuff, including country, and this carries over to the rss link.