My Twitter break was extremely good for my mental and physical health, mostly because I wasn't staring at a constant stream of pain all day. So, something has to change. (Cont'd)
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Because my Twitter newsfeed is literally making me sick
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Others have said turning off retweets has made twitter dramatically less upsetting. That, in conjunction with an rss client populated with the sources of those stories that you see around here might do the trick.
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I'm just worried that disabling RTs means I might miss important topics
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so I want to have something else setup first, because that's my goal (to disable RTs)
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Could spending a month populating an RSS feed from the sources in your upsetting RTs before turning them off help? Also, there are tools to turn tweets/RTs from specific users into RSS feeds, for the accounts that may fall into stuff you want, but not on your TL.
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One thing that I've done to help with this problem: I've used Twitter lists that include accounts I *need* to hear from in order to broaden my perspectives. That allows me to check in on my own time when I have the emotional bandwidth to do it.
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I've found
@nuzzel useful for looking at twitter less while still getting the same good set of links — it pulls in all the links from the last N hours of your feed. it's still basically a feed, but there's way, way lessThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Well, you *can* get chronological Twitter now, which implies that if you wanted to, you could in theory write something that screen-scrapes at 5pm each night and sends you a long-ass HTML email or something. I don't know of anything out-of-the-box that does that, though.
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(ps if you do find something that works for you, let us know because I would also like to use twitter to follow friends and marginalized voices without also having the Eternal Despair Vortex one click away)
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(what he said, but also secret-like)
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@themediawitch,@ReignOfApril,@prisonculture for ideas; Check out@Lakota_Timez http://lakotacountrytimes.com &@AmericanIndian8 http://americanindiansandfriends.com ; that's just off the top of my [very tired] head. Great idea, great thread for#SelfCare (((((
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An indigenous news source:
@IndianCountry Some North Americans that you don't seem to be following already:@RuthHHopkins ,@apihtawikosisan ,@zhaabowekwe Ruth Hopkin's article on US/native treaty history in Teen Vogue made me notice "ooh glossy fashion mag runs good article"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Democracy Now! has a lot of these types of stories. But I think there’s a deeper and more relevant question here. Unfortunately we don’t actually know each other IRL and this is Twitter so I won’t go there unless you care to know.
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That tweet reads weird and that’s not my intent. My DMs are open if my personal experience with mental health stuff can be of help to you because you seem like good people and I want you to be happy.
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I've gone back to good old fashioned RSS readers blog post consumption can dip in and out and not miss anything. I also try to read my twitter lists rather than main feed
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I’ve been looking for a platform that does this and haven’t found one. Longreads does great curation, though, and publishes some wonderful pieces itself.
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If you don't mind the peanut gallery weighing in, how about twitter lists? You can click on those on your own schedule while your primary feed of curated happy flies by.
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