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by tonymet 1466 days ago
this is more a hygiene and habits question . sit down weekly and review your habits like where you are spending your time and what apps you are wasting time on . then prune the low quality experiences .

you’ll also have to be willing to cut some good things out . like uninstalling twitter which is probably 90% unhealthy and 10% constructive content

you don’t need to read news or politics more than once a month . most of it is drama and regurgitation rather than developments and trends

as for tools you can use adblock custom filters to hide political banners but the ROI is low . install pihole and you can blacklist domains . the awesome lightweight list links to text only news which can help reduce news cravings

https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites

when you do a review ask yourself “is this edifying “ and if not delete it

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here is an example filter ruleset and you can find others on github. https://github.com/AllanChain/politics-filter

it’s nascent but with a few more contributors it should be usable