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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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757 points headalgorithm | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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joshdavham ◴[05 Feb 25 15:50 UTC] No.42950233[source]▶
One thing to consider for those of us who are more sensitive to online outrage is to just quit social media all together. I’m technically gen z and I’ve been off of social media (aside from HN, WhatsApp and discord) for years and you wouldn’t believe how great it’s been for my overall state of mind.

Reddit, instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, etc are all the equivalent of digital junk food and I’d argue that we’re all a lot more negatively affected by it than we think. There’s a reason ‘brain rot’ was word of the year.

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zombiwoof ◴[05 Feb 25 22:19 UTC] No.42956109[source]▶
Isn’t this how they win? I mean the people in Germany in 1930 just said , this is crazy , it doesn’t feel right, but hey I have outrage fatigue so the concentration camps are just fine
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warkdarrior ◴[05 Feb 25 22:57 UTC] No.42956568[source]▶
Much of the German population in the 1930s and 1940s was not aware of concentration camps, and learned of them once the Allies arrived.
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1. bobcatmin ◴[09 Feb 25 22:24 UTC] No.42994697{3}[source]▶
Laughably false, camps like Dachau were on newspapers and newsreels. Almost every Germans were aware that they were rounding up Jews and murdering them in camps.