/social/ - Socialism

I can't talk much about third world issues (I'm in a so-called 'developed nation'). I've definitely felt better when I can see the movement on-the-ground, rather than just the tip of the iceberg I can watch online.
Especially online things can be damaging - lots of it is people (of all kinds of ideologies) trying to radicalize others, so there's a lot of negative doom-fuel everywhere all about showing things need to change. But we know that! No point in hearing it again every day.

Not really much else I can say without it just being generic anti-depression advice.

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>>795
 Well, I've deleted yt and other stuff these days and I already feel better. Doomscrolling funking sucks

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>>799
It sucks and its addictive by design. More attention, more data and ads.
There are many sites where I only want the content of a few specific creators making quality or locally-relevant content. In YT's case, I use Invidious (somewhat broken, consider alternatives) and its RSS feeds to subscribe to certain channels without having to visit YT.
RSS feeds are great, I used to get on a computer/phone and just cycle between sites I was interested in. Visit, there's no new posts, try the next, nothing, visit another, it's junk, and keep going until it's been so long I feel like checking the first again. I even included this site until the Recent Posts RSS feed was added and I decided to get my shit together. Now I get notified when there's something new instead of me wasting hours a week patrolling my favourite sites manually for updates.

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>>800
All social media sites strive to be an infinite treadmill of dopamine-activating slop. Partly because it keeps you there longer, giving them more data. Partly because it's in that state you are more susceptible to advertising. Both in the moment (as you scroll) and in the general state of depression it puts you into (as you stumble through life waiting for the next commodity to promise to fill the void). It is truly insidious and "brain rot" is accurate if not very descriptive or helpful at diagnosing the problem.

I have this loop where I go to an IB, not necessarily an active one, and participate in a discussion. The topic can be serious, I really care about defending my position, but I lose focus on understanding that I am interacting in an IB and who knows what person is on the other side of the PC. The problem is that I find myself going back and forth from the site -which remember: it is slow- just to feed the aforementioned loop. I will do this >>800 with the threads that interest me and will argue less online. I have rotted myself doing this.

>>840
I did this a few times with political discussions on IBs, or seeing /pol/yps screeching on other boards, but almost entirely stopped after a few days when the only people replying were rightoids who plainly didn't even have reason behind their assertions. Just unreasoned, syncretic ideas. It would be one thing if it were bad faith argument tactics, or edgy humor, but this was earnest brainlessness. So I would end up just trolling them after making one or two effortposts and getting no discernible counterpoints in reply. And as fun as that is, I'm not going to rot away doing that instead of going outside.