Building a Better News Wall

[jesse_the_k]

...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.

Comments

[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.

Thanks

[jesse_the_k]

I'm impressed that you have the self-control to click away from Twitter on desktop.