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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by dr_dshiv on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:55AM (#42950320)
I find LinkedIn a healthy collection of professional accomplishments with minimal news. It’s also not very addictive.

However, shitty newsfeeds like Google news are my bane. I can’t stop.

Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:15AM (#42950644)
I find LinkedIn to be the worse of the social media sites. My feed is full of wannabe “thought leaders”, people posting about a meaningless vendor certificate they got, recruiters giving advice, people who can’t get a job or were recently laid off, etc.

But now, politics is getting involved because people are having government job offers rescinded and the entire federal government is in a free fall like a 3rd world banana republic.

Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:26PM (#42955408)
> My feed is full of wannabe “thought leaders”

Block them, it's easy. I have only close friends and coworkers that I don't hate on that site.

Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by johnnyanmac on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:43PM (#42957024)
you'll be spending every day blocking people, speaking from experience. Your dam can only push back so much.
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by gbin on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:12AM (#42950606)
I have seen an increasing amount of Trump non sense popping up more and more from the VC community the past 6 months on LI
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by vaccineai on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:03PM (#42958097)
that's because VC and billionaires know when a party is winning, and when the other party is unvotable for 10+ years.
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by joshdavham on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:34PM (#42956926)
> It’s also not very addictive.

For me, it's quite addictive unfortunately, even though I agree that it's pretty dull.