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Reddit browsing I’ve controlled; anyway I subscribe to very niche subs which don’t encourage comment hordes and meaningless quips etc. My Twitter feed is a ple
by crossroadsguy 5y ago
Reddit browsing I’ve controlled; anyway I subscribe to very niche subs which don’t encourage comment hordes and meaningless quips etc.
My Twitter feed is a pleasant echo chamber tuned to my literary and cinematic taste (almost zero anything else) and it takes at most total 30-40m a week of my time, or less. I don’t even check it daily.
Then there’s 2-3 mailing lists I’m member of where I read/reply 20-30 mins everyday.
iOS Screen Time feature helps but it doesn’t give a nuclear option - “just block - no extension!”.
Surprisingly HN takes quite some of my time and that too for just “checking” it; and if I am being really honest HN also is the most useless and least significant (in any way) of these all such sites. When I look at it holistically over quite some time it’s really monotonous, insipid, and uninspiring. It’s really a regurgitating mass of comments. So no it’s not the quality for sure.
I sometimes succeed in getting off HN for weeks/months and then it again sticks like a leech that I notice when it’s heavy again after having sucked enough.