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Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by mntmoss on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:39PM (#21985209)
The most important thing I've done for myself recently is to start breaking away from the social streams by doing my own aggregation with Fraidycat. Besides letting me assemble a lot of sources, it dampens the noise because it doesn't let a single feed drown out the rest: that Twitter account that can't stop shitposting every two seconds in between the real insights is thus tamed.

And so there's a distinct "lack of addictive qualities" when I open it, followed by some very rewarding content. It does take a little time to put together but it helps that we have social streams now to sample from, since so many of them ultimately link to a slower-moving source of real content like a personal blog.

Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by ImaCake on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:46AM (#21999275)
Wow fraidycat is fantastic. I couldn't get it working on firefox but it does run on chrome well.