for a day. Just a day. So many of you need a break from The Great Wide Online. Take a day off and do literally anything else.

( big edit) Translation for the haters and jokesters in the comments:

spend a day doing something completely new. Get the fuck out of the social media feedback loop that is literally rotting your mental health. You can even do something online and not be "online"!! Hit someone up on a discord server and ask them to play a round of a new vidya game. head to 123movies and watch that swedish arthouse movie from the 60s that a friend recommended. Educate yourself on something that isn't about some obscure Deep Twitter Lore drama.

Give your pets some extra love and attention. Make plans for a houseplant nook in the corner of your bedroom. Look up a weird foreign food and cook it next Wednesday.

It's like we forget how to enjoy things when we're constantly being barraged with doomer posting everywhere.

Yes, i know shit is SOOOOO fucked lmao... but we have to take care of our mental wellbeing if we're ever going to have solidarity and change the world into what we want.

take a break

  • ElonMarx [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    This site needs to cater less to all these people who are so online that they refresh this site every 30 minutes throughout the day.

    That was a benefit of the old sub, that the algorithm was slow enough so that there were new posts every half day, but made it easy to catch up on what was going on as someone who checks daily for a bit.

    The algorithm on here is so fucking fast that it refreshes the front page every hour, and that creates the conditions for dumbass struggle sessions to thrive. Drives normal people away.

    • Zo1db3rg [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I think its because the reddit subs default to sort by "best," which u think has something ti do with the number of upvotes or a ratio of uo to down or some shit. Whereas here its by most active. So as soon as the post isn't getting as much traffic its just gone and replaced by more high traffic post. Which cycles through posts much faster. This made more sense when the forum was smaller but there's gotten to be enough ppl on that it makes things a little chaotic.