Hey, dude, I feel I somewhat understand you, because I was the same, and am the same. But here's something I learned a while ago that helped (obviously didn't kill it). It's by now a cliche and is totally commercialized, but hey, if it works.
Habit 1: Be Proactive: Focus and act on what you can control and influence instead of what you can’t.
There are a lot of things you can't control/have causal effects in life. You will kill yourself worrying about them. Drop the bad news you can't change. If you already know who you are going to vote for, just don't read the political news. Do you parts for the climate change and forget the rest. etc.
Yeah, I would agree that people who don't fact-check what they see on the media, especially social media, are more susceptible to misinformation and manipulation. Unfortunately, I think the number of people that don't have the skills, or the inclination, is vast given Mobile reachability.
This tendency seems to be commonplace in humans. Big sisters/brothers like to tell their younger siblings what to do. You give people any power, there would be some who are bound to abuse it. That's why there is philosophy about anarchism.
Thanks for the work. You are a life saver. I coincidentally ended up in the scenario you described: using an account (big instance) to subscribe to everything. Syncing unsubscription from a main account would work well for me.
Not saying this is the answer to your question, but generally, it's the hardware/software unaccounted-for states that can't easily be recovered from. So, rebooting would hopefully get it in a known "clean" state, and hopefully, not falling into that unaccounted-for state again.
Shitty, but works with some other things too. Angry, frustrated, hopeless? Sleep it off, maybe (not guaranteed) it will be better tomorrow.
Haha, what do they have to do to find out who the subject is, right? To do this sustainably, maybe to depend on view counts, mood of responses, weirdness of subject. More algorithmic nightmare. Or maybe we can all be like the princes. Be proper all the time. Wait, that doesn't work too well, does it. 🤔
Elephant0991 @ Elephant0991 @lemmy.bleh.au Posts 33Comments 137Joined 2 yr. ago
Hey, dude, I feel I somewhat understand you, because I was the same, and am the same. But here's something I learned a while ago that helped (obviously didn't kill it). It's by now a cliche and is totally commercialized, but hey, if it works.
Habit 1: Be Proactive: Focus and act on what you can control and influence instead of what you can’t.
There are a lot of things you can't control/have causal effects in life. You will kill yourself worrying about them. Drop the bad news you can't change. If you already know who you are going to vote for, just don't read the political news. Do you parts for the climate change and forget the rest. etc.
Live long and prosper.