I keep going to reddit and youtube and just getting mad over zionists, how do I stop, I didn’t do this before this week aaaaaaa
You don’t need to browse reddit you have us :D
Avoid Reddit. It has always been a hostile place for Arabs. Above all remember that many commercial online platforms are manipulated and don’t reflect the reality.
I don’t wanna be reductive and just say, “Touch grass.” But…
due to recent events I’m afraid of going outside
u can “touch grass” without going outside there are other things to do without going outside besides being mad at the shitty part of the internet maybe try to find new hobbies, there are even things to do on the internet that dont involve social media, or range bait content, watc some movies, read some books, read some non political (or maybe differently political would be better) like science news.
but besides that u stop engaging with content by just doing it, the algorithms for all social media and content websites just feed u waterver u click on/watch if u just ignore that stuff it will disappear from ur feeds, so just find other stuff u actually like to watch and specifically search for it and ignore “recommendations” as far as reddit goes dont go to r/all just look at specific communities that u like.
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notice when you’ve gone back and consciously choose to notice how it’s making you feel in the moment and decide to do something else instead. you have to reprogram the dopamine hit from getting mad at assholes and redirect it towards something else that’s healthier. don’t get mad at yourself when you don’t succeed immediately. just keep doing it and you’ll rewire your brain really fast. source: many years of unmedicated ADHD
Developing a happy outlook isn’t easy. It’s a skill that you need to practice and cultivate over time. Recognize that rage-bait and fascist content is stirring up unproductive emotions in you and that you do have some agency over which thoughts you choose to identify with and give attention to.
Read a little bit about stoicism if you’re unfamiliar with it.
I started working out because of this. I listen to the deprogram while I work out and it’s pretty comforting, they usually have a positive outlook on things or at least look towards how we can make a better future. They are also just funny yk.
Learn about the provinces of China, India, and the countries of Africa
learn about all the different plant and animal taxa
and the former positions of tectonic plates
recognize that youtube actually recommends you content when you mark “not interested”
just go walk somewhere
roll around in some healthy soil
step 1: do not use Reddit, it is an evil place
step 2: delete YouTube account if you have one, use Invidious instead and disable comments in the settings
step 3:
its really just finding another outlet. at least for me.
the general advice people have given here has been pretty good, but i want to share a couple things that have worked for me to disrupt these kinds of negative habits:
- remove the site from your browser history so it doesn’t autocomplete in the address bar
- log out of the site so you don’t get your “preferred” places to go recommended
- get a browser extension to block the site as a whole or the specific features that bother you
Don’t you find some of the things you read here engaging?
i’m talking about trying to break a habit that you find negative in your life, and some specific things that can help with that, not saying that you should do these things on this site.
I see what you mean. I just think that if you’re not angry, you’re either not well informed or have no empathy. It sucks, I know. I don’t know how to unknow what I do. Ignorance is bliss as they say. I think it’s better to find a way to deal with it than to avoid it altogether.
to go back to the original post, where she is getting angry at zionists (presumably about the genocide israel is doing), i care much more whether you are doing anything about it than what emotions you have about it. different people work differently. i’d rather someone contribute to a local org and be ignorant of global struggles instead of spending all of their time getting angry at people online so that they contribute nothing.
I exorcise as much of the rage as I can by passing it back to them in the form of anticolonial communist messages I write on crosswalk poles. Sharpie is best
spend your time practicing a hobby instead of consuming crappy online content
Being aware of it is the first step. It’s the same rush you get from cursing when in pain, or punching a pillow/wall when you’re upset. The flood of anger, especially righteous anger, can be it’s own reinforcement. Stop giving yourself that stimulation. You’ll feel agitated and restless, but you need to break the habit. Substitute a different habit. Check out cute animal videos from The Dodo, or enjoy some Primitive Technology, or watch some Veg Village recipe videos.
I literally do the same thing, keep entering toxic comment sections on YouTube knowing that it will be toxic, keep coming back on reddit because of few good subs and then seeing bullshit by accident or by entering subs which everyone would assume are normal and then seeing bullshit. Not to mention visiting r/ShitLiberalsSay.
Yeah I’m definetely sadomasochist.
I just activated my youtube comment blocker to avoid doing that exact thing! Some of the channels I follow have really nice comments, but pretty much any time I’m browsing outside my usual wheelhouse it goes downhill real fast.
What’s with that sub? I haven’t been there but isn’t it supposed to be communist? Not that that word guarantees good politics these days, plenty of NATO leftists calling themselves communists for clout lately
It used to be a kind of socialist space, but I think the original mods lost power and it’s now little more than western chauvinist leftists. They were always there, as it was supposed to be a place to help educate them, but now they are the main userbase rather than guests, same problem with any socialist space on reddit, it either gets overwhelmed by western libs who think they’re the real communists™ or else it just gets quarantined if they can’t do that.
/r/sls : the liberals are calling from inside the house!
