Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    21 hours ago

    I feel the opposite, my feed is almost entirely people describing how the world is falling apart, how communism is good but not that communism, and Linux

    • specimen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      21 hours ago

      Absolutely, lemmy has such a downer vibe to it, it’s not doing me any good using this platform lately.

      • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        19 hours ago

        We need more jokes around Lemmy, this is all communism this and that gays blahblahblah trump yapyapyap, holy cow. Sometimes I can’t help but doomscroll on Reddit, missing the community and the jokes and the friends I had there.

      • lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        Voyager has the ability to filter anything you want, the moment you see some toxic bad news you can remove a keyword. The only reason I haven’t banned .world outright is because there are meme channels