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nora
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with the demise of the usefulness of twitter, i feel like i'm constantly reaching for sensory information from a limb that has its input muffled, like it's covered in bandages. i don't know what's going on in the world anymore. and part of how i need to recover is by getting used to having less information, because in a lot of ways having access to so much was hurting me. but it's really hard not having News in the way i used to.

i imagine other people are feeling the same way because of the enshittification of reddit, or the slow death of metafilter, or something else. but it's hard to cope with! has anyone figured out how to deal?


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It's the gnawing habit of scratching at a part of my body I don't have any more. There was a time when I could put an idea onto my notebook and immediately have someone, someone random, provide immediately interesting, useful input, even in just misunderstanding me so I could tell what I needed to explain.

It's very, very hard to work without it. I got so used to that simulus/response in a peak period and now it's just... gone.

agreed. i replaced twitter with cohost about a year ago (august 2022) and it was a very hard adjustment to make at first, especially back then. the constant stimulus of twitter (for good, bad, or worse) was replaced with a slow drip of content that was pretty much all worthwhile. a needed change, but a tough adjustment for sure

I definitely feel it with Google results the most, like I used to be able to reliably find info about error messages that I'm dealing with for work and now it's just AI generated bullshit for pages and pages. And now that reddit is being demolished I'm not sure what I'm gonna do for that kind of specific technical info.

Definitely agree with the other comments about it being like kicking an addiction or a bad habit. I'm trying to just be less online in general and more present in my body and my surroundings which is something I always wanted to be struggled with... it is hard to strike a balance though because I want to be connected online with others.

I wish I did. For all the terrible, terrible, things that place was, it has been my go-to for learning and time and general culture, for better or ill, since 2009. The amount of news or just general any topic that was [useful/interesting/well-explained] was such a useful counterpoint to the shite that's in the press and I'm a bit out of kilter trying to figure out if there's space/places for that ambient awareness again without actively going to x place to like, be informed about anything.

Yeah. Absolutely. Turns out, Twitter was where I was generally keeping my finger on the pulse of events in the world, and as that's dwindled to the point my feed is mostly adverts, I feel like I've gotten more and more out of the loop.