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...after the election I let all my news wall filters go down.

It felt great to be *f*r*e*e* but I encountered lots of toxic stuff that made me anxious as fuck. So I raised my walls a little bit, but still wasn't sleeping well, unable to focus on things I'd formerly liked to do.

Now I've found a balance which works for me.

I've set up my net filtering software -- Freedom.to -- to create cracks large enough to hunt down information, and scheduled to minimize plunging into driven doom-scrolling.

News sites are only available between 11:30 and 11:59 am.

Twitter is only available between 12:30 and 1pm.

I can't follow news links from Twitter -- have to wait a day. Mostly, that's fine. Happily MyGuy, who's connected to the original streaming service (radio) has promised to let me know of anything vital.

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Date: 2021-02-10 10:37 pm (UTC)
seascribble: the view of boba fett's codpiece and smoking blaster from if you were on the ground (Default)
From: [personal profile] seascribble
Fuck I need to find a way to limit my twitter consumption.
seascribble: the view of boba fett's codpiece and smoking blaster from if you were on the ground (Default)
From: [personal profile] seascribble
Hmmm very interesting. I think for me I need to cut even further loose and just put the ding dang device down. But that might help with it...
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Date: 2021-02-10 11:15 pm (UTC)
gloss: woman in front of birch tree looking to the right (Default)
From: [personal profile] gloss
Your set-up sounds eminently reasonable and I'm glad you've got processes in place for proactively dealing with anxiety & everything. <3
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Date: 2021-02-11 02:24 am (UTC)
tozka: title character sitting with a friend (Default)
From: [personal profile] tozka
I like your set-up! I've actually added parental controls on my phone and blocked Twitter entirely; now I can only access it from my desktop, where it's much easier to stop scrolling and go do something else before the doomscrolling starts up.
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Date: 2021-02-11 10:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tarasacon
Oh, sounds like a good approach!

re: our conversation about this a few days ago:
I poked at the menu for the browser on my phone and figured out how to remove any immediately visible links to news sites. Now if I want the news I now have to type in at least part of the URL. With that barrier to access I’m doing pretty good about limiting news to once a day, sometimes even every day and a half or so. It’s definitely better for my sanity.
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Date: 2021-02-12 06:55 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] esteefee
sounds like you've found the right strategy!

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