[karanmg]

I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed. It’s not social media that is entirely bad, rather it’s the notifications and infinite scrolling feed which cause cognitive overload. I changed my consumption habits and don’t open news apps mindlessly.

I’m not on most social media platforms as well. I subscribe to the print & digital New York Times. Reading the paper is old school, but I find it relaxing and I absorb a wider array of information vs what recommendation algos would feed me. I subscribe to ESPN/Cricinfo etc for specific sports that I follow.

[Test0129]

> I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed.

Except everything is an emergency. Did you hear the latest X said about Y thing? Did you hear what is happening in X-istan? What about the climate?

I don't care about any of it. At the end of the day being more informed about the comings and goings of every atomized point of the world only causes me more existential stress. If I'm being honest I really only care about what happens in my locality, and by extension my state. If it's big enough, maybe I'll care what happens at the country level. But very, very few things rise to meet this and cause me to have a need to burden myself. What Trump, or Biden, or Zelensky, or whoever is in the media circuits today says has literally zero bearing on my life in my community. Sometimes it's best to turn off the brain melting box in the corner of the room.

[int_19h]

National news and politics have very little to do with the community - communities simply don't operate at that scale. If anything, judging by my experience on Nextdoor, national issues always being in focus ruins local communities.

[bruceb]

I do agree reading fewer but fuller pieces is better. But I would not limit it to one place then you are only getting what the NYT is pushing.

[benjaminwootton]

I will pay the social cost of being less informed for my mental health and well-being.

[adastra22]

Why should I care what the expectation of a community is?

[mantas]

More like you should participate in community building. If you ain’t building your community, someone else will build it for you and come banging at your door.

Democracy doesn’t work in uninformed passive society.