Kitaab

Cutting Back on Internet-ing

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published 2022-09-02 00:37

updated 2022-09-02 00:40

It seems every couple of months I go through a digital detox or sorts. This time I'm cutting back on the Fediverse. I found myself endlessly scrolling fedi looking for lil hits of dopamine, I was growing increasingly frustrated at this. I'm still addicted to scrolling no doubt, but it's a lot better than it was before. Instead I scroll RSS feeds, I have so many of them. One thing I do miss is it's a lot less personal. Blogs are by and large much more refined. Which isn't a problem with them (and going off my own, isn't universally true either 😝), but seems to be the trend. Even following my fedi friends through RSS, their blogs are much more curated than fedi is.

I guess I'm writing this because I miss it a little